Priced for one buyer, wanted by many: management describes new sources of demand converging on the same thing it already
The model's full reasoning — Q3 2018 call → NOWe need answer YES/NO based on transcript. Need determine if management describes demand for same thing company already makes/does now coming from more than one direction, widening demand base, and management responding with steps, numbers lag. Let's parse transcript. Company Live Oak Bancshares, SBA lender, verticals. Topics: hurricane, tech update, concentration risk, competition, loan sales vs holding, expenses. Need see if any widening of demand for existing offering? Maybe "partner banking opportunities" "transaction and payment accounts" "platform banking partnerships" - but those are new products/capabilities? Need assess. Question asks: "demand for the same thing the company already makes or does is now coming from more than one direction at once" - e.g., buyers, uses, applications, industries, channels, geographies pulling on existing offering/capacity widened. Management responding. In transcript, management talks about competition, not demand widening. They talk about secondary market for SBA loans: buyers pulled back, supply, pricing. Not widening. They talk about holding more loans on balance sheet vs selling. Not demand convergence. Maybe "Apiture" has 549 bank customers, SunTrust investment. But that's a tech platform, not company's existing output? Apiture is separate? Live Oak has investment. Not demand for Live Oak's existing offering. Maybe "deposit platform" - they originated 3,500 new accounts, total 30,000, more than double year ago. That's growth in deposits, but not multiple sources? Deposits are funding, not demand for output? No. Maybe "partner banking opportunities" - new, not existing. Question specifically: "demand for the same thing the company already makes or does is now coming from more than one direction at once" - Could be "SBA loans" being sold in secondary market and also held on balance sheet? No, that's not demand from buyers; it's choice. Management describes competition from large banks, conventional lenders offering pricing. That's supply side, not demand widening. Need answer NO. But let's be thorough. Transcript: Chip mentions "we have the ability to put on the books more predictable revenues, less gain on sale dependency" - not demand.
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