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Territorial Savings Bank earned a $5.1 million second-quarter profit that was up slightly from a year before and largely
derived from Hawaii home mortgage lending.
The local bank, through parent Territorial Bancorp Inc., eked out a 2% income gain, or $100,000 more than last year’s second quarter.
Territorial said its income from loan interest rose to $16 million in the three months ended June 30 from $14.9 million a year earlier. But expenses, including interest paid on customer deposits, rose by about as much.
Allan Kitagawa, company chairman and CEO, said in a statement that the bank’s financial results were strong.
“We were able to increase our total loans and deposits while maintaining good asset quality,” he said.
Territorial, Hawaii’s fifth-largest bank, generates more than 95% of its loans from residential lending.
Loans receivable for the bank edged up 2% to $1.60 billion from
$1.57 billion in the comparable quarter.
Deposits
increased 1% to $1.65 billion from $1.63 billion. Assets grew 1% to $2.09 billion from
$2.07 billion.
The company’s board
of directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of
22 cents per share that is slated to be paid Aug. 22 to stockholders of record as of Thursday.