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Second Quarter 2018
MARCH 2023
Bank Watch
“I’m Not Broke. I’m Just Not Liquid.”
BUSINESS VALUATION &
FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES
In This Issue
ARTICLE
“I’m Not Broke. I’m Just Not Liquid.” 1
Public Market Indicators	 8
MA Market Indicators	 9
Regional Public
Bank Peer Reports	 10
About Mercer Capital	 11
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Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023
“I’m Not Broke. I’m Just Not Liquid.”
When confronted about falling behind on child support payments and the pending
foreclosure of his 109-room mansion, Evander Holyfield, a former world heavyweight
boxing champion, explained that he faced a liquidity crisis, not an issue of solvency.
It is an apt metaphor for the ructions that began on March 8, 2023 when Silvergate
Bank announced its intent to return depositor funds and wind-down. The astonishing
events of the last few weeks are illustrated by a few numbers:
» $42 billion: The deposits reportedly withdrawn from Silicon Valley Bank
after its failed capital raise, representing one-quarter of its year-end 2022
deposits.
» $109 billion: The peak Federal Reserve borrowings by First Republic Bank
between March 10, 2023 and March 15, 2023, representing one-half of its
year-end 2022 total assets1
» $147 billion: The increase in borrowings under the Federal Reserve’s
Primary Credit and Bank Term Funding Program between March 8, 2023
and March 22, 2023.2
» $304 billion: The debt issued by the FHLB system between March 13,
2023 and March 17, 2023 consisting of notes that mature in less than a
year and longer-term bonds. The $151 billion of longer-term bonds issued
that week outstripped the monthly issuances for January and February of
$130 billion and $50 billion, respectively. Outstanding FHLB advances are
believed to exceed the levels observed in the 2008-09 financial crisis.3
A number of factors contributed to the recent bank failures, as well as the severe
pressure on the stocks of certain banks that investors perceive as having similar
issues. It’s a bit like a blues song where not one thing befalls the protagonist, but
rather a cascading series of events leads to turmoil — like when the protagonist’s
woman leaves him and also takes the dog. As Taj Mahal sings:
She caught the Katy
And left me a mule to ride…4
Figure 1 provides the market backdrop for March 2023, with various bank indices
declining approximately 20% through March 24, 2023. We also include several banks
in the market’s line of fire, including First Republic, PacWest, and Western Alliance.
1
First Republic Bank,Form 8-K,March 16,2023 | 2
Federal Reserve,H.4.1 Release,Factors Affecting Reserve Balances | 3
Weinstein,Austin and Max Reyes,Bloomberg News,“FHLB Issues $304 Billion in a Week as Banks Boost Liquidity,
” March 20,2023 |
4
Taj Mahal,“She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)”
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Western Alliance First Republic
PacWest Silicon Valley
Signature Market Cap $250MM to $1.0 BN
Market Cap $1.0 to $5.0 BN Market Cap  $5.0 BN
Figure 1:: Market Backdrop (March 2023)
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Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023
Are Banks Broke?
While Evander, on a self-reported basis, was solvent, the issue is complicated for
the banking industry. We start by defining insolvency as a bank’s assets being worth
less than its liabilities. Media reports fixate on unrealized securities losses, but from
a valuation perspective, a bond maturing in ten years with a 3% rate is not much
different than a loan with a similar structure (putting aside credit risk). However, this
analysis overlooks an important asset that is not recognized on the balance sheet—
the value of the bank’s deposit portfolio.
Figure 2 presents the tangible common equity/asset ratios for selected banks. While
SVB’s bond portfolio duration and reliance on large dollar demand deposits no
doubt were issues in its collapse, its balance sheet composition—with securities
comprising 56% of total assets—contributed to the frenzy regarding SVB’s financial
condition. If other banks had assets with observable prices equal to 56% of total
assets, they might be in the same pickle. Note that SVB’s unrealized loss on
securities (14.8%) is not the highest among these five banks. In our opinion, it is a
sideshow to focus on only one component of the balance sheet — the securities
portfolio—to determine solvency or skill at avoiding the effects of rising interest rates.
From our client work, we suspect that unrealized “losses” on loans are lower than
for securities (as a percentage of cost basis), due to a shorter duration. However, in
dollar terms the unrealized losses likely are significant vis-à-vis equity. Sharply higher
deposit portfolio values and strong capital positions, which offset the downward loan
and securities adjustments, suggest that most banks are not insolvent. However,
even if most banks are not insolvent, headwinds remain.The risk of a ruinous deposit
run that crystallizes losses is now a risk the market must discount. Larger unrealized
losses on assets imply longer asset durations, which place net interest margins at risk
if depositors become more rate sensitive. Last, MA remains difficult to accomplish,
as mark-to-market accounting effectively realizes a target’s unrealized losses.
Silicon Valley
Bank
Signature Bank
First
Republic Bank
Pacific Western
Bank
Western Alliance
Bank
Equity, Excl. AOCI 17,419,000 9,361,104 14,187,295 4,798,482 6,419,520
- Intangible Assets (285,000) (60) (218,317) (1,408,492) (679,580)
- Loss on AFS Securities (2,526,000) (2,453,821) (469,998) (811,130) (880,492)
- Loss on HTM Securities (15,159,000) (762,197) (4,771,404) (158,663) (176,725)
= Adjusted Tangible Equity ($551,000) $6,145,026 $8,727,576 $2,420,197 $4,682,723
Adjusted Tangible Equity/Asset Ratio -0.26% 5.57% 4.11% 6.08% 6.99%
Securities / Total Assets 56% 24% 15% 17% 13%
Loans / Total Assets 36% 67% 78% 69% 77%
Unrealized Securities Loss / Cost Basis 14.8% 11.2% 16.3% 12.2% 11.4%
Figure 2::Tangible Common Equity/Asset Ratios For Selected Banks
Source: 4Q22 Call Reports, Mercer Capital research
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Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023
A Failed Capital Raise
Into the febrile environment following Silvergate Bank’s announced wind-down,
SVB launched a capital raise. While media reports indicate that a lead investor had
been arranged and Goldman Sachs had soft orders for the remaining securities, the
announcement of the offering—followed soon after by news of its difficulties—caused
depositors to lose confidence in SVB’s financial strength and start the run on the
bank. The failed offering raises several questions. First, was it a mistake to attempt
the transaction in the immediate aftermath of Silvergate’s announced wind-down?
Second, if SVB’s capital raise had closed before the bond portfolio restructuring was
announced, would the deposit run even had occurred?
Across the Atlantic, Credit Suisse’s forced marriage to UBS led to the write-off of
its contingent convertible (“CoCo”) bonds, with the CoCo holders faring worse than
Credit Suisse’s shareholders. This inversion of the normal capital structure hierarchy,
with shareholders faring better than some debtholders, caused yields to spike on
CoCo bonds as the market repriced the risk of CoCo bonds. This raises a capital
issue for some global banks. If stock prices are depressed and CoCo bonds are
exorbitantly expensive to issue, then the only other capital raising alternative is to limit
balance sheet growth with its attendant macroeconomic costs.
After SVB and Signature failed, First Citizens Bank purchased $72 billion of SVB loans
at a $16.5 billion discount (23%) and Flagstar Bank purchased $12.9 billion of loans
at a $2.7 billion discount (21%)5
. While the nature of these loans was not disclosed,
we assume that most of the discount was attributable to interest rate adjustments
rather than credit exposure given the failed banks’ relatively low level of nonaccrual
and delinquent loans at year-end 2022. Even if the FDIC was a distressed seller, the
discounts indicate the potential capital hole that may exist in troubled banks as all the
assets are marked to market.
These circumstances surrounding distressed banks point to difficulties in resolving
interest rate induced solvency issues through additional capital. This differs from
the Great Financial Crisis when the balance sheet problems could be isolated to, for
example, land loans that represented 10% of total loans. In the current environment,
“risk-free” assets like government bonds contribute significantly to solvency concerns;
thus, a much larger proportion of a bank’s assets is underwater—though many of the
assets are at no risk of credit loss.
Even if capital can be raised without triggering a deposit run, an offering that increases
total equity by, say, 10% could be inadequate to resolve the market’s concern about
capital and diminished earning power. The only remaining alternative for banks that
become troubled is to backstop the banking system with liquidity in the hope that (a)
banks have sufficient asset yields to cover higher funding costs, thus allowing them
to gradually replace low yielding assets and/or (b) rates decrease.
Deposits Flow Out Faster than Back-Up Liquidity
Flows in
Another perplexing thread in the story is the inability of SVB and Signature to access
timely back-up sources of liquidity. As withdrawals accelerated in the afternoon of
Thursday, March 9th, SVB sought funding from the FHLB and then the Fed. SVB
missed an afternoon cutoff to process a large FHLB advance. Then, SVB attempted
to transfer excess collateral from the FHLB to the Fed, but SVB’s transfer could not
be processed before the Fed’s deadline. This left SVB with a negative cash balance
of $1 billion on March 9th, leading to its closure the next day.6
Signature also faced
issues borrowing from the FHLB as its deposit run intensified on March 10th. A
request over the weekend to borrow $20 billion from the Fed was rejected, leading to
Signature’s failure.7
5
First Citizens BancsShares,Inc.investor presentation dated March 27
,2023 and FDIC press release regarding Signature Bridge Bank,N.A.,dated March 19,2023 | 6
Miao,Hannah,Greg Zuckerman,and Ben Eisen,“How the Last-Ditch Effort to Save Silicon
Valley Bank Failed,
” The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2023 | 7
Ensign, Rachel Louise and David Benoit,“Signature Bank’s Quirky Mix of Customers Fueled its Rise and Hastened Its Fall,
” The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2023
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An enduring question is whether these two failures had to happen, at least when they
did. Not to diminish the financial issues involved, but depositors and the Fed/FHLB
were moving at different speeds. It also is difficult to square Signature’s rejection by
the Fed with First Republic obtaining, at one point, $109 billion from the Fed. This
situation has some parallels to the Fed saving Bear Stearns but allowing Lehman
Brothers to fail.
The Fed as Liquidity Provider and Liquidity Drainer
The Fed and FHLB have been essential in stabilizing the banking system, but the Fed’s
reverse repo facility, used since 2013 to conduct monetary policy, also contributes to
the volatility. Now, money market funds can park client funds at the Fed. Not only
do these funds generate higher yields than most bank deposit accounts, but there
is virtually no risk of the Fed collapsing. Therefore, uninsured depositors have the
best of both worlds—higher yields than traditional deposit accounts and lower risk.
Indeed, money market funds experienced inflows of $121 billion during the week that
SVB failed.
Bill Dudley, a former president of the New York Fed, warned that allowing money
market funds to access the Fed’s balance sheet could cause the “disintermediation
of the financial system.” While depositors have not done this en masse, it suggests
potential unintended consequences of current monetary policy.8
Mounting NIM Pressure
Even if SVB and Signature had been rescued, the rates on replacement funding
for the deposit outflows likely would have exceeded their asset yields as may be
the case with First Republic. As indicated in Table 2, the fourth quarter 2022 yield
on earning assets was only 3.38% for SVB and 4.13% for Signature. Instead of an
immediate failure, a low or negative NIM would have eroded capital. Did the banks
have sufficient capital to absorb this gradual capital erosion while waiting for rates
to decline? Given their asset durations, SVB’s and Signature’s failures may have
been inevitable. PacWest and Western Alliance appear better positioned to handle
the cost of replacing deposit outflows at market rates, while First Republic’s position
is tenuous.
Both Silvergate and SVB cited NIM pressure, rather than deposit withdrawals, as the
reason for liquidating securities. Silvergate’s CEO addressed an analyst question as
follows:
Not knowing whether the deposit withdrawals were going to be temporary,
we borrowed against our securities portfolio. That’s what it was there for. It
was all pledgeable, high quality, and so we borrowed against it. But then to
your point, when you’re borrowing, you’re borrowing at current rates, right?
So if the securities portfolio was yielding a lower level at the end of the third
quarter because it had been put in place and some of it was longer duration
put in place in the past, then you could just connect the dots, right? We were
borrowing at a higher level all in because the Fed had been raising rates so
rapidly during 2022.
… How do we make sure we’re protecting the future capital? Well, it’s by
selling the longest duration right now so that we can preserve the earnings
power….9
SVB’s investor presentation regarding its capital raise described the transaction’s
rationale as follows:
Today, we took strategic actions to strengthen our financial position–
repositioning SVB’s balance sheet to increase asset sensitivity to take
advantage of the potential for higher short-term rates,partially lock in funding
costs, better protect net interest income (NII) and net interest margin (NIM),
and enhance profitability. 10
8
For a discussion of these admittedly abstruse issues, see The Economist, “America’s Banks are Missing Hundreds of Billions of Dollars,
” March 21, 2023, and“The Federal Reserve’s $2.5 trn Question,
” February 9, 2023 |.
9
Silvergate Capital Corporation, Special Call with Investors, January 5, 2023 | 10
SVB Financial Group, Investor Presentation, March 8, 2023
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The situation with NIMs for SVB, Signature, and First Republic is reminiscent of
the SL crisis. Fortunately, most banks have higher asset yields than this trio. This
suggests several lessons. First, the gap between the rates on core deposits (1.58%
for First Republic’s interest-bearing deposits, for example) and wholesale borrowings
means that large core deposit losses can quickly devolve into severe NIM erosion,
despite the most robust asset/liability modeling. Second, uncertainty will continue
to cloud the outlook for banks with low yielding, long-term assets for which NIM
preservation is reliant on depositors remaining insensitive to higher rates available
elsewhere.
Some Historical Perspective
The current rate environment is not unprecedented, but memories have faded as the
long bull market for bonds continued unimpeded. In 2006 and 2007, the Fed Funds
target rate remained in the 5% range, similar to the current target rate. Mercer Capital
obtained data for banks with year-end 2022 total assets between $100 million and $3
billion that reported historical financial data over the entire period from 2000 to 2022.
During the 2006 to 2007 period, this group of banks reported a median cost of
interest-bearing deposits in the 3.50% range (see Figure 4 on the next page).
By contrast, Figure 5 shows the progression of the Fed Funds target rate and cost of
interest-bearing deposits for the peer group in 2022. Though still rising, the cost of
interest-bearing deposits was 0.75% in the fourth quarter of 2022. Deposit funding
costs are almost exactly reversed from their level in late 2007. In the fourth quarter
of 2007, 99% of banks had a cost of interest-bearing deposits over 2.00%, whereas
97% of banks had a cost of deposits under 2.00% in the fourth quarter of 2022.
It is interesting to speculate on depositor behavior in the current interest rate
environment. Perhaps depositors are desensitized to higher rates after the long zero
rate environment, despite the ease with which funds can be transferred to other
alternatives. There are many more investment alternatives now than in 2006 and
2007. Thus, rate sensitive funds may have already fled bank deposit accounts for
higher yielding alternatives, leaving the remaining depositors stickier than in past
higher rate environments. Customers could be more appreciative of the technology
and services offered by banks than in the 2006 to 2007 period.
Source: 4Q22 Call Reports, Mercer Capital research
Figure 3 ::Yields, Cost of Funds, and Margins For Selected Banks
Silicon Valley
Bank
Signature Bank
First
Republic Bank
Pacific Western
Bank
Western Alliance
Bank
Yield on Loans 6.08% 4.95% 3.59% 5.80% 5.73%
Yield on Securities 1.78% 2.26% 3.33% 2.31% 3.98%
Yield on Earning Assets 3.38% 4.13% 3.55% 4.89% 5.42%
Cost of Interest-Bearing Deposits 2.36% 3.11% 1.58% 2.13% 1.94%
Cost of Earning Assets 1.32% 1.85% 1.06% 1.46% 1.47%
Net Interest Margin 2.06% 2.28% 2.49% 3.43% 3.95%
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Figure 4 :: Progression of the Fed Funds Target Rate (Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2007)
Figure 5 :: Progression of the Fed Funds Target Rate (Jan. 2022 - Mar. 2023) Conclusion
Like the Katy leaving the station, the banking industry is embarking into the unknown
after the failures of SVB and Signature. Most banks will remain as sturdy as the mule
left behind, though not without greater uncertainty until the gap narrows between the
book value and fair value of bank assets and funding costs stabilize.
Andrew K. Gibbs, CFA, CPA/ABV
gibbsa@mercercapital.com | 901.322.9726
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro, bank Call Reports, Mercer Capital research
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro, Bank Call
Reports, Mercer Capital research
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WHAT WE’RE READING
Smaller banks are seeking clarity on deposit insurance following the FDIC’s decision to extend insurance to all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
Along with deposit flight and unrealized losses on securities, CRE exposure has become a potential area of concern for small and mid-size banks.
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The Federal Reserve’s FedNow payments system is set to go live in July and has attracted interest from both large and small banks betting that customers will value
faster payment options.
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Mercer Capital’s Public Market Indicators March 2023
Mercer Capital’s Bank Group Index Overview Return Stratification of U.S. Banks
by Market Cap
Total Return Regional Index Data as of March 27
, 2023
Month-
to-Date
Year-
to-Date
Last
12 Months
Price /
LTM
EPS
Price /
2023 (E)
EPS
Price /
2024 (E)
EPS
Price /
Book
Value
Price /
Tangible
Book Value
Dividend
Yield
Atlantic Coast Index -13.4% -11.6% -18.3% 8.5x 7.1x 6.7x 104% 111% 2.9%
Midwest Index -9.4% -10.6% -12.1% 8.7x 7.6x 7.6x 94% 123% 3.5%
Northeast Index -14.2% -12.2% -11.8% 8.2x 8.1x 7.4x 102% 108% 3.5%
Southeast Index -17.0% -15.6% -20.7% 7.6x 8.3x 9.2x 98% 112% 2.9%
West Index -16.8% -14.1% -19.7% 8.6x 7.5x 6.8x 101% 102% 3.3%
Community Bank Index -13.6% -12.1% -15.1% 8.4x 7.7x 7.5x 102% 111% 3.3%
SP U.S. BMI Banks -19.5% -13.9% -27.5% na na na na na na
SP U.S.
Banks Market
Cap Under
$250 Million
SP U.S.
Banks Market
Cap Between
$250 Million -
$1 Billion
SP U.S.
Banks Market
Cap Between
$1 Billion - $5
Billion
SP U.S.
Banks Market
Cap Over $5
Billion
Month-to-Date -14.65% -15.93% -18.54% -19.82%
Year-to-Date -11.96% -16.98% -15.74% -13.64%
Last 12 Months -11.61% -22.67% -24.28% -28.24%
-35%
-30%
-25%
-20%
-15%
-10%
-5%
0%
As
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March
27,
2023
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70
80
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100
110
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5
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March
25,
2022
=
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MCM Index - Community Banks SP U.S. BMI Banks SP 500
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
LTM
2023
U.S. 18.4 12.0 6.9% 6.3% 5.4% 4.3% 5.5% 7.5% 7.5% 6.1% 10.0 9.6% 9.3% 5.5% 6.9% 7.1% 6.9%
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
20%
Core
Deposit
Premiums
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
LTM
2023
U.S. 228% 196% 145% 141% 132% 130% 134% 155% 148% 143% 170% 178% 168% 150% 152% 166% 164%
0%
50%
100%
150%
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250%
Price
/
Tangible
Book
Value
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
LTM
2023
U.S. 22.1 19.9 19.3 21.7 21.9 17.0 16.5 17.5 18.8 18.1 19.5 22.4 16.3 13.9 14.5 14.1 13.8
0
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Earnings
Regions
Price /
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Earnings
Price/
Tang.
BV
Price /
Core Dep
Premium
No.
of
Deals
Median
Deal
Value
($M)
Target’s
Median
Assets
($000)
Target’s
Median
LTM
ROAE
Atlantic Coast 13.0x 182% 9.4% 15 139.5 689,345 10.2%
Midwest 12.1x 152% 6.9% 46 66.9 205,436 10.9%
Northeast 14.0x 124% 4.1% 7 60.7 544,087 9.3%
Southeast 13.8x 176% 7.4% 18 150.1 333,421 13.2%
West 17.6x 190% 9.0% 9 109.0 324,449 11.8%
National Community
Banks
13.8x 164% 6.9% 95 103.2 330,778 11.6%
Median Valuation Multiples for MA Deals
Target Banks’ Assets $5B and LTM ROE 5%, 12 months ended March 27
, 2023
Median Core Deposit Premiums
Target Banks’ Assets $5B and LTM ROE 5%
Median Price/Tangible Book Value Multiples
Target Banks’ Assets $5B and LTM ROE 5%
Median Price/Earnings Multiples
Target Banks’ Assets $5B and LTM ROE 5%
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
Updated weekly, Mercer Capital’s Regional Public Bank Peer Reports offer a
closer look at the market pricing and performance of publicly traded banks
in the states of five U.S. regions. Click on the map to view the reports from
the representative region.
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Bank Peer Reports
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Mercer Capital's Bank Watch | March 2023 | “I’m Not Broke. I’m Just Not Liquid.”

  • 1. www.mercercapital.com Second Quarter 2018 MARCH 2023 Bank Watch “I’m Not Broke. I’m Just Not Liquid.” BUSINESS VALUATION & FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES In This Issue ARTICLE “I’m Not Broke. I’m Just Not Liquid.” 1 Public Market Indicators 8 MA Market Indicators 9 Regional Public Bank Peer Reports 10 About Mercer Capital 11
  • 2. © 2023 Mercer Capital // www.mercercapital.com 1 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 “I’m Not Broke. I’m Just Not Liquid.” When confronted about falling behind on child support payments and the pending foreclosure of his 109-room mansion, Evander Holyfield, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, explained that he faced a liquidity crisis, not an issue of solvency. It is an apt metaphor for the ructions that began on March 8, 2023 when Silvergate Bank announced its intent to return depositor funds and wind-down. The astonishing events of the last few weeks are illustrated by a few numbers: » $42 billion: The deposits reportedly withdrawn from Silicon Valley Bank after its failed capital raise, representing one-quarter of its year-end 2022 deposits. » $109 billion: The peak Federal Reserve borrowings by First Republic Bank between March 10, 2023 and March 15, 2023, representing one-half of its year-end 2022 total assets1 » $147 billion: The increase in borrowings under the Federal Reserve’s Primary Credit and Bank Term Funding Program between March 8, 2023 and March 22, 2023.2 » $304 billion: The debt issued by the FHLB system between March 13, 2023 and March 17, 2023 consisting of notes that mature in less than a year and longer-term bonds. The $151 billion of longer-term bonds issued that week outstripped the monthly issuances for January and February of $130 billion and $50 billion, respectively. Outstanding FHLB advances are believed to exceed the levels observed in the 2008-09 financial crisis.3 A number of factors contributed to the recent bank failures, as well as the severe pressure on the stocks of certain banks that investors perceive as having similar issues. It’s a bit like a blues song where not one thing befalls the protagonist, but rather a cascading series of events leads to turmoil — like when the protagonist’s woman leaves him and also takes the dog. As Taj Mahal sings: She caught the Katy And left me a mule to ride…4 Figure 1 provides the market backdrop for March 2023, with various bank indices declining approximately 20% through March 24, 2023. We also include several banks in the market’s line of fire, including First Republic, PacWest, and Western Alliance. 1 First Republic Bank,Form 8-K,March 16,2023 | 2 Federal Reserve,H.4.1 Release,Factors Affecting Reserve Balances | 3 Weinstein,Austin and Max Reyes,Bloomberg News,“FHLB Issues $304 Billion in a Week as Banks Boost Liquidity, ” March 20,2023 | 4 Taj Mahal,“She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)” 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 2/28/23 3/7/23 3/14/23 3/21/23 February 28, 2023 = 1.00 Western Alliance First Republic PacWest Silicon Valley Signature Market Cap $250MM to $1.0 BN Market Cap $1.0 to $5.0 BN Market Cap $5.0 BN Figure 1:: Market Backdrop (March 2023)
  • 3. © 2023 Mercer Capital // www.mercercapital.com 2 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 Are Banks Broke? While Evander, on a self-reported basis, was solvent, the issue is complicated for the banking industry. We start by defining insolvency as a bank’s assets being worth less than its liabilities. Media reports fixate on unrealized securities losses, but from a valuation perspective, a bond maturing in ten years with a 3% rate is not much different than a loan with a similar structure (putting aside credit risk). However, this analysis overlooks an important asset that is not recognized on the balance sheet— the value of the bank’s deposit portfolio. Figure 2 presents the tangible common equity/asset ratios for selected banks. While SVB’s bond portfolio duration and reliance on large dollar demand deposits no doubt were issues in its collapse, its balance sheet composition—with securities comprising 56% of total assets—contributed to the frenzy regarding SVB’s financial condition. If other banks had assets with observable prices equal to 56% of total assets, they might be in the same pickle. Note that SVB’s unrealized loss on securities (14.8%) is not the highest among these five banks. In our opinion, it is a sideshow to focus on only one component of the balance sheet — the securities portfolio—to determine solvency or skill at avoiding the effects of rising interest rates. From our client work, we suspect that unrealized “losses” on loans are lower than for securities (as a percentage of cost basis), due to a shorter duration. However, in dollar terms the unrealized losses likely are significant vis-à-vis equity. Sharply higher deposit portfolio values and strong capital positions, which offset the downward loan and securities adjustments, suggest that most banks are not insolvent. However, even if most banks are not insolvent, headwinds remain.The risk of a ruinous deposit run that crystallizes losses is now a risk the market must discount. Larger unrealized losses on assets imply longer asset durations, which place net interest margins at risk if depositors become more rate sensitive. Last, MA remains difficult to accomplish, as mark-to-market accounting effectively realizes a target’s unrealized losses. Silicon Valley Bank Signature Bank First Republic Bank Pacific Western Bank Western Alliance Bank Equity, Excl. AOCI 17,419,000 9,361,104 14,187,295 4,798,482 6,419,520 - Intangible Assets (285,000) (60) (218,317) (1,408,492) (679,580) - Loss on AFS Securities (2,526,000) (2,453,821) (469,998) (811,130) (880,492) - Loss on HTM Securities (15,159,000) (762,197) (4,771,404) (158,663) (176,725) = Adjusted Tangible Equity ($551,000) $6,145,026 $8,727,576 $2,420,197 $4,682,723 Adjusted Tangible Equity/Asset Ratio -0.26% 5.57% 4.11% 6.08% 6.99% Securities / Total Assets 56% 24% 15% 17% 13% Loans / Total Assets 36% 67% 78% 69% 77% Unrealized Securities Loss / Cost Basis 14.8% 11.2% 16.3% 12.2% 11.4% Figure 2::Tangible Common Equity/Asset Ratios For Selected Banks Source: 4Q22 Call Reports, Mercer Capital research
  • 4. © 2023 Mercer Capital // www.mercercapital.com 3 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 A Failed Capital Raise Into the febrile environment following Silvergate Bank’s announced wind-down, SVB launched a capital raise. While media reports indicate that a lead investor had been arranged and Goldman Sachs had soft orders for the remaining securities, the announcement of the offering—followed soon after by news of its difficulties—caused depositors to lose confidence in SVB’s financial strength and start the run on the bank. The failed offering raises several questions. First, was it a mistake to attempt the transaction in the immediate aftermath of Silvergate’s announced wind-down? Second, if SVB’s capital raise had closed before the bond portfolio restructuring was announced, would the deposit run even had occurred? Across the Atlantic, Credit Suisse’s forced marriage to UBS led to the write-off of its contingent convertible (“CoCo”) bonds, with the CoCo holders faring worse than Credit Suisse’s shareholders. This inversion of the normal capital structure hierarchy, with shareholders faring better than some debtholders, caused yields to spike on CoCo bonds as the market repriced the risk of CoCo bonds. This raises a capital issue for some global banks. If stock prices are depressed and CoCo bonds are exorbitantly expensive to issue, then the only other capital raising alternative is to limit balance sheet growth with its attendant macroeconomic costs. After SVB and Signature failed, First Citizens Bank purchased $72 billion of SVB loans at a $16.5 billion discount (23%) and Flagstar Bank purchased $12.9 billion of loans at a $2.7 billion discount (21%)5 . While the nature of these loans was not disclosed, we assume that most of the discount was attributable to interest rate adjustments rather than credit exposure given the failed banks’ relatively low level of nonaccrual and delinquent loans at year-end 2022. Even if the FDIC was a distressed seller, the discounts indicate the potential capital hole that may exist in troubled banks as all the assets are marked to market. These circumstances surrounding distressed banks point to difficulties in resolving interest rate induced solvency issues through additional capital. This differs from the Great Financial Crisis when the balance sheet problems could be isolated to, for example, land loans that represented 10% of total loans. In the current environment, “risk-free” assets like government bonds contribute significantly to solvency concerns; thus, a much larger proportion of a bank’s assets is underwater—though many of the assets are at no risk of credit loss. Even if capital can be raised without triggering a deposit run, an offering that increases total equity by, say, 10% could be inadequate to resolve the market’s concern about capital and diminished earning power. The only remaining alternative for banks that become troubled is to backstop the banking system with liquidity in the hope that (a) banks have sufficient asset yields to cover higher funding costs, thus allowing them to gradually replace low yielding assets and/or (b) rates decrease. Deposits Flow Out Faster than Back-Up Liquidity Flows in Another perplexing thread in the story is the inability of SVB and Signature to access timely back-up sources of liquidity. As withdrawals accelerated in the afternoon of Thursday, March 9th, SVB sought funding from the FHLB and then the Fed. SVB missed an afternoon cutoff to process a large FHLB advance. Then, SVB attempted to transfer excess collateral from the FHLB to the Fed, but SVB’s transfer could not be processed before the Fed’s deadline. This left SVB with a negative cash balance of $1 billion on March 9th, leading to its closure the next day.6 Signature also faced issues borrowing from the FHLB as its deposit run intensified on March 10th. A request over the weekend to borrow $20 billion from the Fed was rejected, leading to Signature’s failure.7 5 First Citizens BancsShares,Inc.investor presentation dated March 27 ,2023 and FDIC press release regarding Signature Bridge Bank,N.A.,dated March 19,2023 | 6 Miao,Hannah,Greg Zuckerman,and Ben Eisen,“How the Last-Ditch Effort to Save Silicon Valley Bank Failed, ” The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2023 | 7 Ensign, Rachel Louise and David Benoit,“Signature Bank’s Quirky Mix of Customers Fueled its Rise and Hastened Its Fall, ” The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2023
  • 5. © 2023 Mercer Capital // www.mercercapital.com 4 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 An enduring question is whether these two failures had to happen, at least when they did. Not to diminish the financial issues involved, but depositors and the Fed/FHLB were moving at different speeds. It also is difficult to square Signature’s rejection by the Fed with First Republic obtaining, at one point, $109 billion from the Fed. This situation has some parallels to the Fed saving Bear Stearns but allowing Lehman Brothers to fail. The Fed as Liquidity Provider and Liquidity Drainer The Fed and FHLB have been essential in stabilizing the banking system, but the Fed’s reverse repo facility, used since 2013 to conduct monetary policy, also contributes to the volatility. Now, money market funds can park client funds at the Fed. Not only do these funds generate higher yields than most bank deposit accounts, but there is virtually no risk of the Fed collapsing. Therefore, uninsured depositors have the best of both worlds—higher yields than traditional deposit accounts and lower risk. Indeed, money market funds experienced inflows of $121 billion during the week that SVB failed. Bill Dudley, a former president of the New York Fed, warned that allowing money market funds to access the Fed’s balance sheet could cause the “disintermediation of the financial system.” While depositors have not done this en masse, it suggests potential unintended consequences of current monetary policy.8 Mounting NIM Pressure Even if SVB and Signature had been rescued, the rates on replacement funding for the deposit outflows likely would have exceeded their asset yields as may be the case with First Republic. As indicated in Table 2, the fourth quarter 2022 yield on earning assets was only 3.38% for SVB and 4.13% for Signature. Instead of an immediate failure, a low or negative NIM would have eroded capital. Did the banks have sufficient capital to absorb this gradual capital erosion while waiting for rates to decline? Given their asset durations, SVB’s and Signature’s failures may have been inevitable. PacWest and Western Alliance appear better positioned to handle the cost of replacing deposit outflows at market rates, while First Republic’s position is tenuous. Both Silvergate and SVB cited NIM pressure, rather than deposit withdrawals, as the reason for liquidating securities. Silvergate’s CEO addressed an analyst question as follows: Not knowing whether the deposit withdrawals were going to be temporary, we borrowed against our securities portfolio. That’s what it was there for. It was all pledgeable, high quality, and so we borrowed against it. But then to your point, when you’re borrowing, you’re borrowing at current rates, right? So if the securities portfolio was yielding a lower level at the end of the third quarter because it had been put in place and some of it was longer duration put in place in the past, then you could just connect the dots, right? We were borrowing at a higher level all in because the Fed had been raising rates so rapidly during 2022. … How do we make sure we’re protecting the future capital? Well, it’s by selling the longest duration right now so that we can preserve the earnings power….9 SVB’s investor presentation regarding its capital raise described the transaction’s rationale as follows: Today, we took strategic actions to strengthen our financial position– repositioning SVB’s balance sheet to increase asset sensitivity to take advantage of the potential for higher short-term rates,partially lock in funding costs, better protect net interest income (NII) and net interest margin (NIM), and enhance profitability. 10 8 For a discussion of these admittedly abstruse issues, see The Economist, “America’s Banks are Missing Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, ” March 21, 2023, and“The Federal Reserve’s $2.5 trn Question, ” February 9, 2023 |. 9 Silvergate Capital Corporation, Special Call with Investors, January 5, 2023 | 10 SVB Financial Group, Investor Presentation, March 8, 2023
  • 6. © 2023 Mercer Capital // www.mercercapital.com 5 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 The situation with NIMs for SVB, Signature, and First Republic is reminiscent of the SL crisis. Fortunately, most banks have higher asset yields than this trio. This suggests several lessons. First, the gap between the rates on core deposits (1.58% for First Republic’s interest-bearing deposits, for example) and wholesale borrowings means that large core deposit losses can quickly devolve into severe NIM erosion, despite the most robust asset/liability modeling. Second, uncertainty will continue to cloud the outlook for banks with low yielding, long-term assets for which NIM preservation is reliant on depositors remaining insensitive to higher rates available elsewhere. Some Historical Perspective The current rate environment is not unprecedented, but memories have faded as the long bull market for bonds continued unimpeded. In 2006 and 2007, the Fed Funds target rate remained in the 5% range, similar to the current target rate. Mercer Capital obtained data for banks with year-end 2022 total assets between $100 million and $3 billion that reported historical financial data over the entire period from 2000 to 2022. During the 2006 to 2007 period, this group of banks reported a median cost of interest-bearing deposits in the 3.50% range (see Figure 4 on the next page). By contrast, Figure 5 shows the progression of the Fed Funds target rate and cost of interest-bearing deposits for the peer group in 2022. Though still rising, the cost of interest-bearing deposits was 0.75% in the fourth quarter of 2022. Deposit funding costs are almost exactly reversed from their level in late 2007. In the fourth quarter of 2007, 99% of banks had a cost of interest-bearing deposits over 2.00%, whereas 97% of banks had a cost of deposits under 2.00% in the fourth quarter of 2022. It is interesting to speculate on depositor behavior in the current interest rate environment. Perhaps depositors are desensitized to higher rates after the long zero rate environment, despite the ease with which funds can be transferred to other alternatives. There are many more investment alternatives now than in 2006 and 2007. Thus, rate sensitive funds may have already fled bank deposit accounts for higher yielding alternatives, leaving the remaining depositors stickier than in past higher rate environments. Customers could be more appreciative of the technology and services offered by banks than in the 2006 to 2007 period. Source: 4Q22 Call Reports, Mercer Capital research Figure 3 ::Yields, Cost of Funds, and Margins For Selected Banks Silicon Valley Bank Signature Bank First Republic Bank Pacific Western Bank Western Alliance Bank Yield on Loans 6.08% 4.95% 3.59% 5.80% 5.73% Yield on Securities 1.78% 2.26% 3.33% 2.31% 3.98% Yield on Earning Assets 3.38% 4.13% 3.55% 4.89% 5.42% Cost of Interest-Bearing Deposits 2.36% 3.11% 1.58% 2.13% 1.94% Cost of Earning Assets 1.32% 1.85% 1.06% 1.46% 1.47% Net Interest Margin 2.06% 2.28% 2.49% 3.43% 3.95%
  • 7. © 2023 Mercer Capital // www.mercercapital.com 6 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 Jan-06 Feb-06 Mar-06 Apr-06 May-06 Jun-06 Jul-06 Aug-06 Sep-06 Oct-06 Nov-06 Dec-06 Jan-07 Feb-07 Mar-07 Apr-07 May-07 Jun-07 Jul-07 Aug-07 Sep-07 Oct-07 Nov-07 Dec-07 Fed Funds Target Rate Median Cost of Interest-Bearing Deposits (Quarterly) 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 Jan-22 Feb-22 Mar-22 Apr-22 May-22 Jun-22 Jul-22 Aug-22 Sep-22 Oct-22 Nov-22 Dec-22 Jan-23 Feb-23 Mar-23 Fed Funds Target Rate Median Cost of Interest-Bearing Deposits (Quarterly) Figure 4 :: Progression of the Fed Funds Target Rate (Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2007) Figure 5 :: Progression of the Fed Funds Target Rate (Jan. 2022 - Mar. 2023) Conclusion Like the Katy leaving the station, the banking industry is embarking into the unknown after the failures of SVB and Signature. Most banks will remain as sturdy as the mule left behind, though not without greater uncertainty until the gap narrows between the book value and fair value of bank assets and funding costs stabilize. Andrew K. Gibbs, CFA, CPA/ABV gibbsa@mercercapital.com | 901.322.9726 Source: SP Capital IQ Pro, bank Call Reports, Mercer Capital research Source: SP Capital IQ Pro, Bank Call Reports, Mercer Capital research
  • 8. © 2023 Mercer Capital // www.mercercapital.com 7 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 WHAT WE’RE READING Smaller banks are seeking clarity on deposit insurance following the FDIC’s decision to extend insurance to all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Along with deposit flight and unrealized losses on securities, CRE exposure has become a potential area of concern for small and mid-size banks. (subscription required) The Federal Reserve’s FedNow payments system is set to go live in July and has attracted interest from both large and small banks betting that customers will value faster payment options.
  • 9. © 2023 Mercer Capital // Data provided by SP Capital IQ Pro. 8 Mercer Capital’s Public Market Indicators March 2023 Mercer Capital’s Bank Group Index Overview Return Stratification of U.S. Banks by Market Cap Total Return Regional Index Data as of March 27 , 2023 Month- to-Date Year- to-Date Last 12 Months Price / LTM EPS Price / 2023 (E) EPS Price / 2024 (E) EPS Price / Book Value Price / Tangible Book Value Dividend Yield Atlantic Coast Index -13.4% -11.6% -18.3% 8.5x 7.1x 6.7x 104% 111% 2.9% Midwest Index -9.4% -10.6% -12.1% 8.7x 7.6x 7.6x 94% 123% 3.5% Northeast Index -14.2% -12.2% -11.8% 8.2x 8.1x 7.4x 102% 108% 3.5% Southeast Index -17.0% -15.6% -20.7% 7.6x 8.3x 9.2x 98% 112% 2.9% West Index -16.8% -14.1% -19.7% 8.6x 7.5x 6.8x 101% 102% 3.3% Community Bank Index -13.6% -12.1% -15.1% 8.4x 7.7x 7.5x 102% 111% 3.3% SP U.S. BMI Banks -19.5% -13.9% -27.5% na na na na na na SP U.S. Banks Market Cap Under $250 Million SP U.S. Banks Market Cap Between $250 Million - $1 Billion SP U.S. Banks Market Cap Between $1 Billion - $5 Billion SP U.S. Banks Market Cap Over $5 Billion Month-to-Date -14.65% -15.93% -18.54% -19.82% Year-to-Date -11.96% -16.98% -15.74% -13.64% Last 12 Months -11.61% -22.67% -24.28% -28.24% -35% -30% -25% -20% -15% -10% -5% 0% As of March 27, 2023 60 70 80 90 100 110 3 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 4 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 5 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 6 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 7 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 8 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 9 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 1 0 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 1 1 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 1 2 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 2 1 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 3 2 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 3 3 / 2 5 / 2 0 2 3 March 25, 2022 = 100 MCM Index - Community Banks SP U.S. BMI Banks SP 500 Source: SP Capital IQ Pro. Source: SP Capital IQ Pro. Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
  • 10. © 2023 Mercer Capital // www.mercercapital.com 9 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 LTM 2023 U.S. 18.4 12.0 6.9% 6.3% 5.4% 4.3% 5.5% 7.5% 7.5% 6.1% 10.0 9.6% 9.3% 5.5% 6.9% 7.1% 6.9% 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% 18% 20% Core Deposit Premiums 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 LTM 2023 U.S. 228% 196% 145% 141% 132% 130% 134% 155% 148% 143% 170% 178% 168% 150% 152% 166% 164% 0% 50% 100% 150% 200% 250% Price / Tangible Book Value 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 LTM 2023 U.S. 22.1 19.9 19.3 21.7 21.9 17.0 16.5 17.5 18.8 18.1 19.5 22.4 16.3 13.9 14.5 14.1 13.8 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Price / Last 12 Months Earnings Regions Price / LTM Earnings Price/ Tang. BV Price / Core Dep Premium No. of Deals Median Deal Value ($M) Target’s Median Assets ($000) Target’s Median LTM ROAE Atlantic Coast 13.0x 182% 9.4% 15 139.5 689,345 10.2% Midwest 12.1x 152% 6.9% 46 66.9 205,436 10.9% Northeast 14.0x 124% 4.1% 7 60.7 544,087 9.3% Southeast 13.8x 176% 7.4% 18 150.1 333,421 13.2% West 17.6x 190% 9.0% 9 109.0 324,449 11.8% National Community Banks 13.8x 164% 6.9% 95 103.2 330,778 11.6% Median Valuation Multiples for MA Deals Target Banks’ Assets $5B and LTM ROE 5%, 12 months ended March 27 , 2023 Median Core Deposit Premiums Target Banks’ Assets $5B and LTM ROE 5% Median Price/Tangible Book Value Multiples Target Banks’ Assets $5B and LTM ROE 5% Median Price/Earnings Multiples Target Banks’ Assets $5B and LTM ROE 5% Source: SP Capital IQ Pro. Source: SP Capital IQ Pro. Source: SP Capital IQ Pro. Source: SP Capital IQ Pro.
  • 11. Updated weekly, Mercer Capital’s Regional Public Bank Peer Reports offer a closer look at the market pricing and performance of publicly traded banks in the states of five U.S. regions. Click on the map to view the reports from the representative region. © 2023 Mercer Capital // Data provided by SP Global Market Intelligence 10 Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch March 2023 Mercer Capital’s Regional Public Bank Peer Reports Atlantic Coast Midwest Northeast Southeast West
  • 12. Mercer Capital assists banks, thrifts, and credit unions with significant corporate valuation requirements, transaction advisory services, and other strategic decisions. Mercer Capital pairs analytical rigor with industry knowledge to deliver unique insight into issues facing banks. These insights underpin the valuation analyses that are at the heart of Mercer Capital’s services to depository institutions. » Bank valuation » Financial reporting for banks » Goodwill impairment » Litigation support » Stress Testing » Loan portfolio valuation » Tax compliance » Transaction advisory » Strategic planning Depository Institutions Team MERCER CAPITAL Depository Institutions Services BUSINESS VALUATION FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES Jeff K. Davis, CFA 615.345.0350 jeffdavis@mercercapital.com Andrew K. Gibbs, CFA, CPA/ABV 901.322.9726 gibbsa@mercercapital.com Jay D. Wilson, Jr., CFA, ASA, CBA 469.778.5860 wilsonj@mercercapital.com Eden G. Stanton, CFA, ASA 901.270.7250 stantone@mercercapital.com Mary Grace Arehart, CFA 901.322.9720 arehartm@mercercapital.com William C.Tobermann, CFA 901.322.9783 tobermannw@mercercapital.com Heath A. Hamby, CFA 615.457.8723 hambyh@mercercapital.com Copyright © 2023 Mercer Capital Management, Inc. All rights reserved. It is illegal under Federal law to reproduce this publication or any portion of its contents without the publisher’s permission. Media quotations with source attribution are encouraged. Reporters requesting additional information or editorial comment should contact Barbara Walters Price at 901.685.2120. Mercer Capital’s Bank Watch is published monthly and does not constitute legal or financial consulting advice. It is offered as an information service to our clients and friends. Those interested in specific guidance for legal or accounting matters should seek competent professional advice. Inquiries to discuss specific valuation matters are welcomed. To add your name to our mailing list to receive this complimentary publication, visit our web site at www.mercercapital.com. www.mercercapital.com