Hanmi Financial Corporation Announces First Stock Repurchase Program
August 30 2018 - 09:00AM
Hanmi Financial Corporation (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: HAFC), the
holding company for Hanmi Bank (the “Bank”), announced today that
its Board of Directors has adopted its first stock repurchase
program. Under the repurchase program, the Company may
repurchase up to 5% of its outstanding shares or approximately 1.6
million shares of its common stock.
The repurchase program permits shares to be repurchased in open
market or private transactions, through block trades, and pursuant
to any trading plan that may be adopted in accordance with Rule
10b5-1 of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Repurchases will be made at management’s discretion at prices
management considers to be attractive and in the best interests of
both the Company and its stockholders, subject to the availability
of stock, general market conditions, the trading price of the
stock, alternative uses for capital, and the Company’s financial
performance. Open market purchases will be conducted in
accordance with the limitations set forth in Rule 10b-18 of the
Securities and Exchange Commission and other applicable legal
requirements.
The repurchase program may be suspended, terminated or modified
at any time for any reason, including market conditions, the cost
of repurchasing shares, the availability of alternative investment
opportunities, liquidity, and other factors deemed appropriate.
These factors may also affect the timing and amount of share
repurchases. The repurchase program does not obligate the
Company to purchase any particular number of shares.
About Hanmi Financial
Corporation
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Hanmi Financial
Corporation owns Hanmi Bank, which serves multi-ethnic communities
through its network of 40 full-service branches and 9 loan
production offices 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.
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are included in accordance with the “safe harbor” provisions of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases,
you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as
“may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,”
“anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or
“continue,” or the negative of such terms and other comparable
terminology. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in
the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee
future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.
All statements other than statements of historical fact are
“forward–looking statements” for purposes of federal and state
securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements about
anticipated future operating and financial performance, financial
position and liquidity, business strategies, regulatory and
competitive outlook, investment and expenditure plans, capital and
financing needs and availability, plans and objectives of
management for future operations, developments regarding our
capital plans, strategic alternatives for a possible business
combination, merger or sale transaction, and other similar
forecasts and statements of expectation and statements of
assumption underlying any of the foregoing. These 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 statement. These factors include the following:
failure to maintain adequate levels of capital and liquidity to
support our operations; the effect of potential future supervisory
action against us or Hanmi Bank; general economic and business
conditions internationally, nationally and in those areas in which
we operate; volatility and deterioration in the credit and equity
markets; changes in consumer spending, borrowing and savings
habits; availability of capital from private and government
sources; demographic changes; competition for loans and deposits
and failure to attract or retain loans and deposits; fluctuations
in interest rates and a decline in the level of our interest rate
spread; risks of natural disasters related to our real estate
portfolio; risks associated with Small Business Administration
loans; failure to attract or retain key employees; changes in
governmental regulation, including, but not limited to, any
increase in FDIC insurance premiums; ability of Hanmi Bank to make
distributions to Hanmi Financial Corporation, which is restricted
by certain factors, including Hanmi Bank’s retained earnings, net
income, prior distributions made, and certain other financial
tests; ability to identify a suitable strategic partner or to
consummate a strategic transaction; adequacy of our allowance for
loan and lease losses; credit quality and the effect of credit
quality on our provision for loan and lease losses and allowance
for loan and lease losses; changes in the financial performance
and/or condition of our borrowers and the ability of our borrowers
to perform under the terms of their loans and other terms of credit
agreements; our ability to control expenses; and changes in
securities markets. 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, 2017, 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.
Hanmi Financial Corporation Investor
Contacts:
Romolo (Ron) Santarosa Senior Executive Vice
President & Chief Financial Officer 213-427-5636
Richard Pimentel Senior Vice President &
Corporate Finance Officer 213-427-3191
Lasse Glassen Investor Relations Addo Investor
Relations 424-238-6249
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