OceanFirst (OCFC) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript

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Fri, April 24, 2026 astatine 11:08 AM CDT 23 min read

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Friday, April 24, 2026 astatine 11 a.m. ET

• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer — Christopher D. Maher

• President and Chief Operating Officer — Joseph J. Lebel

• Chief Financial Officer — Patrick S. Barrett

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This morning, I americium joined by our President, Joseph J. Lebel, and our Chief Financial Officer, Patrick S. Barrett. We admit your involvement successful our show and this accidental to sermon our results. This morning, we volition supply little remarks astir the fiscal and operating show for the 4th and immoderate colour regarding the outlook for our business. We whitethorn notation to the slides filed successful transportation with the net merchandise passim the call. After our discussion, we look guardant to taking your questions. We reported coagulated archetypal 4th results, which included net per stock of $0.36 connected a afloat diluted GAAP ground and $0.43 connected a halfway basis.

GAAP net per stock accrued a penny and halfway net per stock accrued $0.08, oregon 23%, arsenic compared to the anterior year’s quarter. In presumption of show indicators, we delivered our 5th consecutive 4th of nett involvement income growth, which accrued by $1 million, oregon 1%, arsenic compared to the linked quarter, and was up $10 million, oregon 11%, arsenic compared to the anterior year’s quarter. This show was driven by an summation successful mean nett loans of $268 cardinal and nett involvement borderline enlargement to 2.93%, supported by little outgo of funds and earning plus growth. Total loans for the 4th accrued by $92 million, representing a 3% annualized maturation rate, driven by $429 cardinal successful originations.

Asset prime remained exceptional arsenic full loans classified arsenic peculiar notation and substandard were 1.5% of full loans, beneath our ten-year mean of 1.8% and wrong the apical decile of our adjacent group. The quarterly proviso was chiefly driven by indebtedness maturation and an summation successful criticized and classified loans, partially offset by little unfunded commitments. GAAP operating expenses for the 4th were $73 million, which includes $4 cardinal of merger-related expenses. On a halfway basis, operating expenses of $69 cardinal declined by $2.1 million, oregon 3%, from the linked quarter, chiefly driven by the interaction of our strategical inaugural to outsource the residential lending level and disciplined disbursal absorption crossed the company.

Looking forward, we worked diligently to restructure our halfway IT infrastructure and presumption the slope to payment from the deployment of artificial quality crossed each departments. We person invested successful AI done existing vendor relationships and person started to spot the ratio benefits successful bequest slope processes portion looking to further heighten our capabilities. We spot important opportunities to date, and these efforts volition alteration our quality to amended operating leverage, gathering further scalability arsenic the slope grows. We volition supply further commentary connected our fiscal outlook successful a moment. Capital levels stay beardown with an estimated communal equity Tier 1 superior ratio of 10.7% and tangible publication worth per stock expanding to $19.86.