Hanmi Reports 2025 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hanmi Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: HAFC or “Hanmi”), the parent company of Hanmi Bank (the “Bank”), today reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2025 and full year.

Net income for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $21.2 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, compared with $22.1 million, or $0.73 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2025. The return on average assets for the fourth quarter of 2025 was 1.07% and the return on average equity was 10.14%, compared with a return on average assets of 1.12% and a return on average equity of 10.69% for the third quarter of 2025.

For the full year of 2025, net income was $76.1 million, or $2.51 per diluted share, compared with $62.2 million, or $2.05 per diluted share, for 2024. The return on average assets for 2025 was 0.98% and the return on average equity was 9.32%, compared with a return on average assets and a return on average equity of 0.83% and 7.97%, respectively, for 2024.

CEO Commentary

“Hanmi delivered solid results in the fourth quarter, enabling us to finish 2025 with sustained momentum,” said Bonnie Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer. “We generated robust earnings growth of 22% for the year, driven by continued net interest margin expansion, healthy loan growth, and disciplined expense and credit management. These consistent results underscore the effectiveness of our relationship-driven banking model.”

“Throughout the year, we advanced several key initiatives that further enhanced our growth and diversification strategy. Investments in banking talent drove a 36% increase in loan production. The composition of our loan portfolio continues to evolve with C&I and residential mortgage loans increasing 25% and 10% for the year, respectively. Our noninterest bearing demand deposits represent 30% of total deposits, reinforcing the stability of our customer base and our credit quality remains strong, with nonperforming loans representing 0.28% of total loans.”

“We are excited about the opportunities ahead in 2026 and beyond and believe we are well positioned to continue delivering on our growth strategy. Our balance sheet is strong, with ample liquidity and excellent capital ratios. We anticipate solid loan and deposit growth, further net interest margin expansion, well managed expenses and stable asset quality to drive consistent performance and long-term value for our shareholders in the coming year,” concluded Lee.

Fourth Quarter 2025 Highlights:

For more information about Hanmi, please see the Q4 2025 Investor Update (and Supplemental Financial Information), which is available on the Bank’s website at www.hanmi.com and via a current report on Form 8-K on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov. Also, please refer to “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” herein for further details of the presentation of certain non-GAAP financial measures.

Quarterly Highlights

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1 See Non-GAAP Financial Measures provided at the end of this news release.

Results of Operations

Net interest income for the fourth quarter increased $1.8 million, or 2.9%, to $62.9 million from $61.1 million for the third quarter, principally because of lower interest expense on interest-bearing deposits. Interest income on interest-earning assets was $105.1 million for the fourth quarter, down $0.1 million from the third quarter. Interest expense on interest-bearing liabilities, however, declined $1.9 million from the previous quarter to $42.2 million because of a 20 basis point decrease in the average rate on interest-bearing deposits.

The average yield on loans for the fourth quarter was 5.94%, down nine basis points from the previous quarter; however, the average balance of loans increased 2.4% to $6.46 billion. The average rate on interest-bearing deposits was 3.36%, down 20 basis points from the third quarter as the average balance of interest-bearing deposits remained relatively unchanged with an increase of 0.2% to $4.71 billion.

For the fourth quarter, net interest margin (taxable-equivalent) was 3.28%, up six basis points from the third quarter. Lower yields on securities and interest-bearing deposits at other banks contributed to a six basis point decline in net interest margin while the improvement in the average rate on interest-bearing liabilities provided a 12 basis point benefit. Net interest margin also benefited by approximately two basis points from an interest-recovery on a previously charged-off loan and loans returning to accrual status, while third quarter net interest margin benefited three basis points from similar activity.

On a full-year basis, net interest income in 2025 was $236.2 million, compared with $202.8 million for 2024, an increase of 16.5%, or $33.4 million. The increase reflects the benefit of lower market interest rates on interest-bearing deposits as well as growth in the average balance of loans. The average rate on interest-bearing deposits for 2025 was 3.56%, 60 basis points lower than the previous year, while the average balance increased 5.5% to $4.63 billion. The average balance of deposits increased 4.1% to $6.57 billion. Average loan yields for 2025, however, were 5.96%, and were not meaningfully affected by the changes in market interest rates. Average loans increased 3.1% to $6.30 billion.

Net interest margin (taxable-equivalent) for 2025 was 3.15% compared with 2.78% for 2024. The 37 basis point increase in the net interest margin primarily reflected the 35 basis point benefit of lower average rates on interest-bearing liabilities.

Credit loss expense for the fourth quarter was $1.9 million, compared with $2.1 million for the third quarter of 2025. Fourth quarter credit loss expense included $1.7 million for loan losses and $0.2 million for off-balance sheet items. Third quarter credit loss expense of $2.1 million included a $2.5 million credit loss expense for loan losses and a $0.4 million credit loss recovery for off-balance sheet items.

Credit loss expense was $14.4 million for 2025, compared with $4.4 million for 2024. The credit loss expense for 2025 included a $14.2 million credit loss expense for loan losses and a $0.2 million credit loss recovery for off-balance sheet items. 2024 credit loss expense included a $4.8 million credit loss expense for loans and a $0.4 million credit loss recovery for off-balance sheet items. The increase for 2025 primarily reflects an $8.6 million charge-off of a syndicated commercial real estate office loan during the second quarter of 2025.

Noninterest income was $8.3 million for the fourth quarter, down $1.6 million, or 16.0%, from the third quarter. The decrease was primarily due to the absence of $0.9 million of death benefit claims from bank-owned life insurance policies and a $0.6 million decline in gain on the sale of residential mortgage loans. Gain on sale of SBA loans was $1.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2025, compared with $1.9 million for the third quarter of 2025. The volume of SBA loans sold for the fourth quarter decreased to $29.9 million from $32.6 million for the third quarter of 2025, while trade premiums were 7.40% for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with 6.95% for the third quarter.

Noninterest income was $34.0 million for the full year of 2025, an increase of $2.4 million, or 7.6%, from $31.6 million for 2024. The increase was primarily due to a $1.7 million increase in gain on the sale of SBA loans, a $1.0 million increase in bank-owned life insurance income from death benefit claims, and a $0.8 million increase in trade finance and other service charges and fees. These items were partially offset by the absence of the $0.9 million gain on sale of a bank branch in 2024. The volume of SBA loans sold for 2025 increased to $130.0 million from $93.7 million for 2024, while trade premiums decreased to 7.45% for 2025, from 8.18% for 2024.

Noninterest expense for the fourth quarter, before other-real-estate-owned and repossessed personal property expenses, increased 3.5% to $38.6 million from $37.3 million because of seasonally higher advertising and promotion expense, as well as an increase in personnel and higher professional fees and data processing expenses. Other-real-estate-owned expense included the first full quarter of operating expenses, as well as $0.3 million of past-due property taxes, for a hospitality property. The efficiency ratio for the fourth quarter was 54.95%, compared with 52.65% for the third quarter of 2025.

Noninterest expense increased by $6.5 million, or 4.6%, to $147.8 million for the full year of 2025 from $141.3 million for 2024. The increase reflected a $4.3 million increase in salaries and benefits due to merit increases and investment in new talent, the absence of a $1.6 million gain from the 2024 sale of other-real-estate-owned, an increase of $1.0 million in other operating expenses for higher loan-related and deposit-related expenses, and an increase of $0.6 million in data processing expense. Partially offsetting this increase was lower repossessed personal property expense of $0.9 million. The efficiency ratio for full-year 2025 decreased to 54.71%, from 60.31% for 2024.

Hanmi recorded a provision for income taxes of $8.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2025, compared with $9.4 million for the third quarter of 2025, representing effective tax rates of 29.5% and 29.9%, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2025, and 2024, the provision for income taxes was $31.8 million and $26.4 million, representing effective tax rates of 29.5% and 29.8%, respectively.

Financial Position

Total assets at December 31, 2025, were $7.87 billion, a 0.2% increase from $7.86 billion at September 30, 2025. This increase was primarily due to a $35.1 million, or 0.5% increase in loans receivable, before the allowance for credit losses, which was partially offset by a $24.1 million decrease in securities available for sale.

New loan production was $374.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 with a weighted average rate of 6.90%, while payoffs were $123.1 million during the quarter at an average interest rate of 6.46%.

New loan production for full-year 2025 was $1.62 billion, an increase of 35.7% or $426.5 million, from $1.19 billion for the full year of 2024. The average rate for new loan production for 2025 was 7.04% compared with 7.87% for 2024. Payoffs for 2025 were $510.3 million at an average rate of 6.64% compared with $450.2 million at an average rate of 7.34% for 2024.

Deposits were $6.68 billion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, a decrease of $89.0 million, or 1.3%, from $6.77 billion at the end of the prior quarter. The change reflects an $84.0 million decrease in demand deposits and a $9.8 million decrease in money market and savings, partially offset by a $4.8 million increase in time deposits. Noninterest-bearing demand deposits represented 30.2% of total deposits at December 31, 2025, compared with 30.8% for the previous quarter and the ratio of average loans to average deposits for the fourth quarter was 96.6%, compared with 94.6% for the previous quarter.

Stockholders’ equity at December 31, 2025, was $796.4 million, up $16.8 million from $779.6 million at September 30, 2025. The increase included net income, net of dividends paid, of $13.1 million for the fourth quarter. In addition, the increase in stockholders' equity included a $6.5 million decrease in unrealized after-tax losses on securities available for sale due to changes in interest rates during the fourth quarter of 2025. Hanmi also repurchased 73,600 shares of common stock at an average share price of $26.75 with an aggregate cost of $2.0 million during the quarter. At December 31, 2025, 837,202 shares remain under Hanmi’s share repurchase program. Tangible common stockholders’ equity was $785.4 million, or 9.99% of tangible assets at December 31, 2025, compared with $768.5 million, or 9.80% of tangible assets at the end of the prior quarter. Please refer to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section below for more information.

Hanmi and the Bank exceeded minimum regulatory capital requirements, and the Bank continues to exceed the minimum for the “well capitalized” category. At December 31, 2025, Hanmi’s preliminary common equity tier 1 capital ratio was 12.05% and its total risk-based capital ratio was 15.06%, compared with 12.00% and 15.05%, respectively, at the end of the prior quarter.

Asset Quality

Loans 30 to 89 days past due and still accruing were 0.27% of loans at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, compared with 0.18% at the end of the prior quarter and 0.30% at the end of the prior year.

Criticized loans totaled $97.0 million, or 1.48% of loans at December 31, 2025, up from $45.4 million, or 0.69% of loans at the end of the prior quarter. At December 31, 2024, criticized loans were $165.3 million, or 2.64% of loans. The fourth quarter change included a $54.3 million increase in special mention loans, offset by a $2.7 million decrease in classified loans. The increase in special mention loans was driven by $56.4 million in downgrades of pass-rated loans which included a $55.0 million hospitality loan, offset by $1.9 million in upgrades and $0.2 million in paydowns. The decrease in classified loans included $2.7 million of charge-offs, $2.3 million of paydowns and payoffs, and $0.7 million in upgrades, partially offset by $3.0 million of downgrades into the classified category. Of the $2.7 million in charge-offs, $1.9 million were equipment finance agreements. Of the $3.0 million in downgrades into the classified category, $1.9 million were equipment finance agreements.

Nonperforming loans were $18.1 million, or 0.28% of loans at December 31, 2025, down from $19.4 million, or 0.30% at the end of the prior quarter. At the end of last year, nonperforming loans were 0.23% of loans. The $1.3 million fourth quarter decrease reflected $2.2 million of charge-offs, $1.9 million of payoffs and paydowns, and $0.7 million of loans that were upgraded to performing loans. Of the $2.2 million of charge-offs, $1.9 million were equipment finance agreements. These declines were partially offset by $3.6 million of additions resulting from loans downgraded to non-performing status, of which $1.9 million were equipment financing agreements.

Nonperforming assets were $20.1 million at December 31, 2025, down from $21.4 million at the end of the prior quarter, which reflected the decrease in nonperforming loans. As a percentage of total assets, nonperforming assets were 0.26% at December 31, 2025, 0.27% at September 30, 2025, and 0.19% at December 31, 2024.

Gross charge-offs for the fourth quarter of 2025 were $2.9 million, compared with $2.6 million for the preceding quarter. Charge-offs during the fourth quarter included $2.0 million of equipment finance agreements. Recoveries of previously charged-off loans were $1.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, which included a $0.6 million recovery on a previously charged-off commercial line of credit and $0.6 million of recoveries on equipment financing agreements. As a result, there were $1.6 million of net charge-offs for the fourth quarter of 2025, or 0.10% of average loans annualized, compared to net recoveries of $0.5 million, or -0.03% for the prior quarter. For the 2025-year, net charge-offs were 0.23% of average loans compared with 0.07% for the prior year.

The allowance for credit losses was $69.9 million at December 31, 2025, compared with $69.8 million at September 30, 2025. Collectively evaluated allowances increased $1.2 million and specific allowances for loans decreased $1.1 million. The increase in the collectively evaluated allowance was due to an increase in qualitative loss factors. The ratio of the allowance for credit losses to loans was 1.07% at both December 31, 2025, and September 30, 2025. The ratio was 1.12% at year-end 2024.

Corporate Developments

On October 24, 2025, Hanmi’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend on its common stock for the 2025 fourth quarter of $0.27 per share. Hanmi paid the dividend on November 20, 2025, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 4, 2025.

Earnings Conference Call

Hanmi Bank will host its fourth quarter 2025 earnings conference call today, January 27, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST) to discuss these results. This call will also be webcast. To access the call, please dial 1-877-407-9039 before 2:00 p.m. PST, using access code Hanmi Bank. To listen to the call online, either live or archived, please visit Hanmi’s Investor Relations website at https://investors.hanmi.com/ where it will also be available for replay approximately one hour following the call.

About Hanmi Financial Corporation

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Hanmi Financial Corporation owns Hanmi Bank, which serves multi-ethnic communities through its network of 32 full-service branches, five loan production offices and three loan centers in California, Texas, Illinois, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Washington, and Georgia. Hanmi Bank specializes in real estate, commercial, SBA and trade finance lending to small and middle market businesses. Additional information is available at www.hanmi.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These factors include the following:

In addition, we set forth certain risks in our reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K that we will file hereafter, which could cause actual results to differ from those projected. We undertake no obligation to update such forward-looking statements except as required by law.

Investor Contacts:

Romolo (Ron) Santarosa

Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

213-427-5636

Lisa Fortuna

Investor Relations

Financial Profiles, Inc.

lfortuna@finprofiles.com

310-622-8251

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

These disclosures should not be viewed as a substitute for results determined in accordance with GAAP, nor is it necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures that may be presented by other companies.

Tangible Common Equity to Tangible Assets Ratio

Tangible common equity to tangible assets ratio is supplemental financial information determined by a method other than in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). This non-GAAP measure is used by management in the analysis of Hanmi’s capital strength. Tangible common equity is calculated by subtracting goodwill and other intangible assets from stockholders’ equity. Banking and financial institution regulators also exclude goodwill and other intangible assets from stockholders’ equity when assessing the capital adequacy of a financial institution. Management believes the presentation of this financial measure excluding the impact of these items provides useful supplemental information that is essential to a proper understanding of the capital strength of Hanmi.

The following table reconciles this non-GAAP performance measure to the GAAP performance measure for the periods indicated:

Preprovision Net Revenue

Preprovision net revenue is supplemental financial information determined by a method other than in accordance with U.S. GAAP. This non-GAAP measure is used by management to measure Hanmi’s core operational performance, excluding the impact of provisions for loan losses. By isolating preprovision net revenue, management can better understand the Company’s profitability and make more informed strategic decisions. Preprovision net revenue is calculated adding income tax expense and credit loss expense to net income. Management believes this financial measure highlights the Company's net revenue activities and operational efficiency, excluding unpredictable credit loss expense.

The following table details the Company's preprovision net revenues, which are non-GAAP measures, for the periods indicated: