Good day, and welcome to the Origin Bancorp, Inc. Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. Today, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note that today’s event is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Chris Reigelman, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and thank you for joining us today. We issued our earnings press release yesterday afternoon, a copy of which is available on our website, along with the slide presentation that we will refer to during this presentation. Please refer to Slide 2 of our slide presentation, which includes our safe harbor statements regarding forward-looking statements and use of non-GAAP financial measures. For those joining by phone, please note the slide presentation is available on our website at www.origin.bank. Please also note that our safe harbor statements are available on Page 6 of our earnings release filed with the SEC yesterday. All comments made during today's call are subject to the safe harbor statements in our slide presentation and earnings release. I'm joined this morning by Origin Bancorp's Chairman, President and CEO, Drake Mills; Chief Financial Officer, Steve Brolly; President and CEO of Origin Bank, Lance Hall; Chief Risk Officer, Jim Crotwell; and Chief Credit and Banking Officer, Preston Moore. After the presentation, we'll be happy to address any questions you may have. Now the call is yours, Drake.

Thank you, Chris, and good morning. Throughout Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the economic outlook continues to be positive, and our bankers are highly engaged with our customers and prospects in driving growth for our company. I'm very pleased with our performance for the quarter and how we are positioned as we move forward. Diluted earnings per share were $1.14 for the quarter with net income over $26.9 million. Net interest income was $52.5 million, and non-interest income was $15.9 million. Our non-interest expense was $39.2 million, and our efficiency ratio was 57.2%. We released credit reserves of $3.9 million for the quarter. I'm proud of the growth we showed in our loan portfolio this quarter with over 9% annualized growth, excluding PPP and mortgage warehouse. Our focus on core deposit relationships has continued to be evident as non-interest-bearing deposits grew 6.4% in the third quarter. We will get deeper into the numbers, but I want to spend a little time talking about strategy and the long-term value we are creating as a company. As I reflect on where we are strategically, I am extremely pleased with the performance of our company and the key areas that our team has remained focused on over the past year. Organic growth has been one of our key areas of focus, and this has been evident in our Texas market. As we show on our slide deck each quarter, our Texas market continues to mature, and we are experiencing positive operating leverage in two of the largest fastest-growing areas in the country. Our expansion strategy in DFW and Houston and the success we've enjoyed with lift-outs creates tremendous opportunity to continue strong organic growth. Another key area of focus for us particularly coming out of the pandemic has been credit quality. As we will get into later in the presentation, our credit profile continues to strengthen. We have been purposeful in our efforts surrounding client selection and maintained our focus on knowing our customers and expanding key relationships. Coupled with strong risk management, the profile of our company puts us in a strong position to take advantage of opportunities. Efficient growth has been a focal point of our organization. Our strategy to be an elite financial performer drives us as we continue to create efficiency, invest in technology, and use data to drive strategic decisions. I am very proud of our company and the results for this quarter. Now, I'll turn it over to Lance.

Thanks, Drake. As mentioned earlier, our bankers have been highly proactive in our relationship-focused process of providing value to our clients and driving results for the company. Before I get into the details of our loan and deposit growth for the quarter, I do want to draw your attention to Slide 10, where we provided an update on PPP. At the end of the third quarter, we had just over 72% of PPP loans forgiven, with another 4% of the loans in the forgiveness process. We've collected over $26.5 million in fees since the beginning of the program with $6.3 million in net fees outstanding. I'm very proud of the bankers and how they continue to provide value to our clients throughout the PPP process. Each quarter, I discussed our focus on technology and our understanding that investments in this space will create automation that will improve efficiency, create more meaningful and actionable data, increase customer satisfaction, and enhance long-term value. I was very pleased with the rollout of our new origin.bank website in the third quarter. This website provides a more enhanced experience for our clients and utilizes attributes of artificial intelligence to personalize the customer journey with products and services based on their browsing behaviors. I'm also excited about a new partnership with Podium, a technology company specializing in conveniently connecting businesses to their clients through mobile-based conversations and interactions. This will allow us to better engage with our clients, track net promoter scores, enhance the client experience, and eliminate manual processes within our touchpoint plans. I'll move to Slide 12 of the presentation. It talks through our deposit profile. As Drake mentioned earlier, our bankers have been extremely focused on driving core deposit relationships. Our average non-interest-bearing deposits grew $128 million in the quarter, which now represents 31.7% of total average deposits. This creates significant future opportunity to drive growth and value for our company. Reducing our total cost of deposits has been a priority for us, and I'm pleased with how we've continued to stay focused. Over the past year, our cost of total deposits has declined by 50%, and we remain committed to finding additional opportunities. As Drake mentioned earlier, we saw very positive loan growth in the third quarter with over 9% annual growth, excluding PPP and mortgage warehouse. New loan production is up 21% through the first nine months of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, and loan fees were up 15% year-over-year. We are seeing strong growth in Houston, Dallas, and North Louisiana with increases for the quarter across C&I owner-occupied commercial and development and owner-occupied commercial real estate excluding PPP. I continue to be encouraged by our pipelines and what we are hearing from our clients. The new hires we mentioned last quarter are off to a great start, and we expect to see them ramp up more throughout the fourth quarter and into 2022. On the mortgage warehouse front, any balances for the quarter were $713 million, which is in line with our expectations and what we discussed last quarter. As I look at what our bankers were able to accomplish in the third quarter, I'm optimistic about how we will finish the year and the momentum we have going into 2022. We have the right teams in place to take advantage of opportunities. And as always, we continue to focus on the areas of dislocation that we can capitalize on. Now, I'll turn it over to Jim to go through our credit quality metrics.

Thanks, Lance. We continue to be extremely pleased with the performance in credit quality of our loan portfolio. As reflected on Slide 14, we experienced reduced levels of past dues, non-performing loans, and classified loans during the quarter. Past due loans reduced to 0.52% net of PPP loans, while non-performing loans reduced to 0.49%, also net of PPP loans. Classified loans reduced by $8 million for the quarter and totaled 1.52% of average loans held for investment net of PPP loans, while net charge-offs remained stable at 0.24% annualized. As mentioned on previous calls, the resiliency of our portfolio is a direct result of our focus on relationship banking, which has delivered a well-diversified loan portfolio. Based on continued improving credit metrics and forecasted economic conditions, our allowance for loan credit losses reduced by $7 million to $69.9 million, which represents 1.35% of loans held for investment and 1.63% net of PPP and mortgage warehouse loans. We continue to closely monitor economic forecasts, particularly the impact of inflation, labor pressures, and continued supply chain disruptions, as well as the impact of COVID. Again, as we have shared previously, we are extremely pleased with the performance and resiliency of our loan portfolio. I'll now turn it over to Steve.

Thanks, Jim. With the forgiveness of PPP loans and a normalized level of mortgage warehouse lines, our loan portfolio has trended towards a more historic mix, and the yield on total loans held for investments has stabilized. For the last three quarters, our total loan yields without PPP loans were approximately 4%. We decreased our cost of funds by 1 basis point this quarter. Going forward, we believe we can continue to reduce our total cost of deposits as higher-cost CDs reprice lower, and maintain a focus on reducing our overall cost of non-maturity deposit accounts. On Slide 15, you see our fixed and variable loan composition. The FOMC has signaled that they are prepared to taper their bond purchases later this quarter, anticipating future interest rate hikes. In September, the FOMC's dot plot indicated that nine of the 18 members expect a rate hike in 2022. As an asset-sensitive bank with approximately 50% of our loans floating, increased interest rates will be beneficial for Origin. Slide 16 shows our recent net interest income and NIM trends. The graph on the left shows our five-quarter trends in income and NIM, and you can see the large impact that the first and second quarters of PPP loan forgiveness had on both income and NIM. As anticipated, interest income from the mortgage warehouse portfolio has normalized from the recent heightened activity. We were able to offset the decrease in growth in other areas within our portfolio. Excluding PPP and mortgage warehouse, our net interest income increased from $41.3 million to $42.9 million quarter-over-quarter. As the majority of our loan growth occurred in the latter part of the quarter, we believe that our net interest income will continue to improve in the fourth quarter. The bottom graph shows our NIM quarterly changes, with excess liquidity contributing to the largest negative impact. Similar to our loan growth, the majority of our investment security purchases occurred during the latter part of the quarter, and as of September 30, our total cash balances were at more normal levels. Excess liquidity should be less of a headwind to our NIM in Q4. Slide 17 depicts our net revenue distribution. The top graph shows our net revenue growth since our IPO and the Q3 2021 over Q2 2021 increases of $1.7 million. The bottom graph details our non-interest income lines. Mortgage banking revenues have stabilized coming off historic nationwide mortgage production and the refinance boom. During the quarter, we've reported swap fees of $727,000, which was a $700,000 increase from Q2 2021 and represents an approximately $250,000 increase over our quarterly average swap fee income of $475,000 since our IPO. In other non-interest income, we reported $3.1 million in LP income, which is $2.3 million higher than Q2 2021. The majority of this income during this quarter was due to fair value increases in two of our five LP investments. Over the last 10 quarters, we have averaged $600,000 income per quarter, while that average has increased to $1 million for the last six quarters as we approach the expected termination of these funds beginning in Q4 2021. Slide 18 details our non-interest expense analysis. We reported total non-interest expense of $39.2 million, which was in line with the expected $38 million to $39 million quarterly range for the year. The largest variance compared to Q2 was a $1 million increase in our medical self-insurance costs related to a one-time large procedure deductible that had to be paid prior to stop-loss coverage. We continue to focus on efficiencies to support our loan growth, and the bottom graph represents our quarterly operating leverage and efficiency ratio trends. Now, I'll turn it over to Drake.

Thanks, Steve. Through the first three quarters, we have executed at a high level on our strategic goals, putting us in a great position to finish the year strong. Our capital position supports our strong organic growth while allowing us to continue to take an opportunistic approach to building partnerships through M&A. I mentioned in my closing comments last quarter that we were working on an insurance acquisition. I'm very pleased to announce that we assigned a purchase agreement to acquire the remaining 62% of the Lincoln Agency, which gives Origin full ownership of that agency. Combined with our other agencies, we will increase current insurance revenues by approximately 20% while reducing operating expenses in 2022. These strategic partnerships have been, and will continue to be, key components in building non-interest income. As we close, I will say that I'm excited about the position we are in moving into 2022. We are in the best growth markets in the nation while enjoying stable core market growth allowing our team to leverage low-cost rule deposits to fuel the dynamic growth markets in DFW and Houston. We've created a flat expense structure while enhancing technology and the customer experience. We continue to build market presence and value through our lift-out strategy, and we are well positioned for future margin expansion based on our asset-sensitive profile. If you remove the noise from across the industry regarding bank balance sheets and income statements from PPP, the FX rate impact on the mortgage origination and mortgage warehouse business, and the excess liquidity throughout the system, and focus on the core fundamentals of our business, we are very bullish on our ability to continue to drive organic loan growth, improve loan yields, effectively manage expenses, and enhance net interest income. Thank you for being on the call today, and we'll open it up for questions.

We will now begin the question-and-answer session. Today’s first question comes from Matt Olney with Stephens. Please proceed.

Thanks. Good morning, guys.

Good morning, Matt.

I want to start on loan growth, and it sounds like the growth you saw in the third quarter was weighted towards the end of the quarter. Is there anything we should read into the timing of that growth being more weighted towards September? I mean, any change in utilization rates or confidence in borrowers? Just trying to appreciate if there was an inflection there in the quarter or is it more just coincidence based off something else?

Yes. Hey, Matt. Good morning. This is Lance. No, it was really coincidence. Actually, if you look at it, it was really strangely split from the very beginning of the quarter to the end. We booked a really nice C&I book of business almost the first day or two of the quarter that we thought was going to come into Q2, which was a big client of ours here in North Louisiana in the timber business. And then we had nice production. I think I even commented in the write-up. If you look through new loans and lines that we've booked, I mean, we're up 21% first nine months of this year over last year. And then we pushed out one assisted living piece that was about $30 million, which kind of hid some growth in the middle of the quarter, and then we saw some really nice growth at the end. So it really was just a little bit of quirkiness and timing.

Okay. Thanks for that, Lance. And then any more thoughts on loan pipelines for here? I think you've talked about that high single-digit loan growth. Is that still a fair outlook once you think about the footprint and some of your recent investments and some of your new hires?

Yes. We feel really positive. Obviously, as we talked about last quarter, seven new hires, almost all in the Texas markets where our folks focused on production really kind of spread out between private banking and commercial banking. We'll have two that we'll announce next quarter, one being a really strong private banker, another one in the Houston, Woodlands market. Coming from another big bank competitor, we have the individual that we've talked about, probably the most that we hired in the Woodlands. Her production has really been strong for us. The other six in Q2 and Q3 are really just starting to ramp up, so we see that production starting in Q4 and then rolling into next year. Loan pipeline is as good as it's been this year. And so I would say, thinking through what Q4 looks like, I think it'll be comparable to what we did in Q3, but probably a little bit stronger.

And Lance, you mentioned you pushed out another loan. Sounds like it was pretty decent size in terms of credit cleanup. I think that was something you started doing last year and earlier this year. Just to update on where we are on that credit cleanup process at this point. Thanks.

Yes. At the beginning of the year, we really talked about high single-digit growth. And when we were thinking through it, I didn't foresee that we would have the real strong opportunity to do some of this cleanup. And again, we talk about client selection in a big way. We talk about our ability to kind of find the clients that are interested in our value proposition, want to be strong deposited partners, wanting to have treasury management with us. And so on top of that $40 million we did in Q2, we took the opportunity to do another $30 million around one assisted living. And we've been telling the market for two years now that assisted living was the one area that we were wanting to sort of shrink from that was in our portfolio. So that's consistent with the message we've been delivering. So again, this year for us has been an awesome opportunity to have both right, our ability to drive growth, our ability to hold on to the yield because of our client selection, and then at the same time, ability to really, really clean up our credit portfolio. So I feel awesome about it.

Okay. Thanks for the color, Lance. And then I guess switching gears over to the fees, mortgage banking pretty flat sequentially. I think in the second quarter, we talked about a mark that went against you guys. Any color on the third quarter mortgage banking and any kind of outlook you can provide? Thanks.

Matt, this is Steve. That mark I think you’re referring to is the mark-to-market on the hedge. And that was $2 million in Q2; this quarter that was $1.046 million. That's really related to two reasons; we did have a decrease in our pipeline on a volume basis and also our gain on sale as the whole industry did decrease a little bit. Going forward into the fourth quarter, we really think that's going to be either a negative or slightly positive. So we hope to pick up that $1 million that we had in the third quarter in the fourth quarter.

Hey, Matt. This is Drake. I also want to respond to the first part of your question about production. I've seen and written a couple of times that as we fare against our Southwest peers, I think something that's important for the market to understand is that our current production footprint is heavily weighted towards Louisiana and Mississippi at this point. So as you look at maybe our more Southeastern peers versus Southwestern peers, I think we look a lot like that. And so if you take our million-dollar club members for the top five in Louisiana and Mississippi. Now, on the other hand, we're making big time progress on recruiting out of DFW and Houston. MLOs, I think are significantly going to change that in the next couple of quarters. But I just want to remind you that this is an issue that we deal with when we start looking at production volumes, and that had a strong impact not only on production volumes but on pipeline hedge moving forward and pipeline size. But I think we'll see some, I would call it stabilization where we are right now, and certainly, Warrie Birdwell, Carmen Jordan, and Russ Chase are making some significant progress in recruiting MLOs and changing the profile of our mortgage production to be more slanted towards the Southwest.

Okay. That's good commentary, Drake. Thanks for that. Just lastly for me. Gain on sale margins within the mortgage business, any color you can provide as far as what you saw in the third quarter and outlook from here?

The gain on sale margin did decrease from the second quarter to the third quarter. There are a couple of different ways to look at this. So if we say one number and you look at another bank, they made net commissions out. And so generally, it went down by roughly 20%. In our forecast, we have it going up next quarter. This is partly because of the rate move and also the mixture between refinance and purchase. So we think going forward, it's going to increase. Last quarter, when we looked to the third quarter, we actually did have it going down, and we were almost spot-on with our production, both the production value and also the gain on sale. So I'm pretty confident that we're going to be picking up some in the fourth quarter.

Okay, guys. That's all for me. I'll hop back in the queue. Thank you.

Thank you, Matt.

The next question comes from Brady Gailey with KBW. Please proceed.

Hey. Thanks. Good morning, guys.

Good morning, Brady.

Maybe if you could just talk us through some of the accounting impacts for the – for you guys picking up the rest of the insurance agency. I know if you look in insurance, you've been doing around $13 million a year. So maybe talk about the incremental revenue that you're picking up from this acquisition and the incremental expense and any sort of impact on tangible book value?

Yes. I think, Brady, I thought with this addition, and I'll go back and make sure I have those numbers correct. But I think this will take us to total revenue from insurance annually to around $22 million. So this is about a 20% bump or $3.65 million in additional revenue. So I'll have to go back and make sure my numbers are accurate when you say $13 million. I feel at this point, what’s important about this insurance acquisition, it’s not that it’s a significant dollar impact to what we're doing at this point. But from a strategic standpoint, what we did with this 62% is allow us to take our agencies. I think we'll complete this in the first quarter and consolidate the three agencies we have, and we also have with the owners of the Lincoln Agency management that will manage the entire insurance network. So we're very pleased with what we see as the ability to create a more efficient model overall, plus we have a couple of acquisition opportunity needs that will add to this that one could potentially close in the first quarter of 2022 and maybe even we get both of them in. But this would give us some additional revenue and start to focus on this being 10% to 15% of our total revenue. Again, the strategy that we are taking with insurance, we now have significant markets, we have significant infrastructure, we have great management with succession built-in, we can now go out and bring on some smaller insurance agencies, and their strategy is going to take us as we begin to cross $10 billion is going to take us – give us an opportunity to replace lost revenue through non-interest income through the insurance business. I really like this model. The impact from a tangible book standpoint, Steve, let me see if I have this.

A tangible book if you realize, it's a very, very immaterial transaction. So we weren't putting a lot of information out there. But tangible book unlike a bank, where you'd expect possibly a three-year payback, insurance companies are usually a little longer. And so I'm going to say that's about double the normal bank that you would see. But again, insurance is a little bit different because it's really driven on your commission revenue that you have. And because it's such a small piece to our total balance sheet and income statement, we didn't go through a lot of that math.

Yes. So Steve, the impact of tangible book value from this acquisition, I mean, would you consider it kind of minimal?

Yes.

All right. That’s super.

Brady, what I was saying is it's so minimal that, I mean, it may take a couple more years in a bank, but it's so small that it's not really worth talking about. I mean, it's very minimal piece.

Got it. Understood. And then Steve, you guys made a lot of movements in the bond portfolio. I know a lot of them happened kind of near quarter-end, so next quarter, we're going to see a larger impact there. But I was just wondering, if you look at your combined taxable and non-taxable bond book, I think the yield was about 175 basis points in the third quarter. If you guys are adding so many balances, what do you expect the bond yield to be going forward? I'm guessing it's going to come down a decent amount just with these new purchases.

Yes. The $0.5 billion we put on was about one. And so it could be about 150 total bond portfolio. Now that 112 because we went short; what we wanted to do was have that $600 million versus $500 million excluding cash getting 7.5 basis points. So yes, it should help us because it's not in cash. And hopefully during next year, we will convert that into loans and more than double the 150 that we're getting for securities.

Yes. So on the bond book, would you consider a kind of a temporary increase and not likely to see this amount of addition to the bond book again, but hopefully the bond book will shrink every time and you can put it in higher yielding loans? Is that the way to think about it over the next couple of years?

Yes. The only difference is seasonality. We normally get a lot of our North Louisiana public funds come in towards the end of the year, December and January. And instead of having a lot of cash, we may go out and purchase a couple of securities in the latter part of the fourth quarter. But after that, we're not going to be increasing securities. It should be running off, and the runoff is roughly $18 million a month, so where we are today.

Okay. All right. And then last for me, just on the $1 million of kind of one-time compensation/benefit medical costs. So that I mean, you had $23.6 million in that line. I mean, is it safe to assume that could come down by about a $1 million next quarter?

Yes. That's the one-time and we may have some procedure costs, but that $1 million, I really do expect to come down next quarter.

Okay. All right. Great. Thanks, guys.

All right, Brady.

Our next question comes from Brad Milsaps with Piper Sandler. Please proceed.

Hey. Good morning, guys.

Good morning, Brad.

Yes. Just had a question on loan yields. It looks like fairly stable, in some cases maybe up a bit in some categories linked quarter. And those things we’re talking to you are seeing pressure there. I noticed – you guys noticed stability, but also Lance mentioned the impact on loan fees. Just kind of curious what you're seeing out there. And if this was an outsized quarter for loan fees, that was something that was sort of propping those up. I just kind of want to think about kind of what new loan yields are coming on versus the current book.

Yes. Hey, this is Lance Hall. I'll take that, and maybe Steve wants to jump in. I think we've done a really nice job of – through this class relation that we're talking about holding loan yields as flat as we can. There's no doubt that the environment is very, very competitive. But I think if you go back through the last three or four quarters, we've been right there at about 4% on loan yields. We're seeing some tougher competition around owner-occupied real estate. So I would think that we'll see a few basis points decrease in loan yields. As we say, competitive fight off for the relationships we want and the relationships we're bringing in. At the same time, I think our bankers have done a great job on the fee side. Now I will say we had one really large swap fee in Q3, hard to determine if we'll be able to close that opportunity again in Q4 around a similar dollar amount. But just the traditional loan fees I think continue to do really well for us.

Yes. And that swap fee is not in NIM; that’s below the line. So I agree with Lance that our fourth quarter will have a little bit of a challenge. So we may have 1 or 2 basis points decline there.

Yes. I would say at the same time, I don't think we've quite bottomed out on deposit cost yet. I mean, that is – at this point, obviously its hand-to-hand combat. But I know our bankers are working hard. We've taken a fresh look at our pricing across all of our platforms and gone through our markets and looked at any various pricing we have on money markets. Obviously, CD pricing is coming in our favor. So I would expect us to be able to get another basis point or so on the deposit costs.

Great. And Steve, I think you mentioned that 60% of the loan portfolio is variable rate. Can you just talk about how you feel the margin would react if we got 25, 50 basis points from the Fed late next year or early 2023? Just want to get a sense of the – maybe the impact of floors, and just kind of how you feel about what a move in short-term rates would do to your margin?

So when – a 25 basis points increase, we would overall get about 19 basis points of that because of some of the loans that are in floors. And then if it goes up 50 basis points, that's closer to 40% of that. Well not 40%, but 40 basis points. And then if it hits 75, that's where we're closer to a 100. We do have – we still have a couple that are between 50 and 75 below floor. But again, if it goes up the first 25, we should get 19 of the 25.

Great. That's helpful. And then finally for me, I don't want to belabor the insurance thing too much, just kind of heard several different numbers there. In your prepared remarks, you said basically a 20% increase to revenues, which I think runs around $13 million for you guys. Is that basically a push with the partnership income? It sounds like you're going to lose in 2022; I think you said that was about a $1 million a quarter normally, and those are going to go away in the fourth. So is that – do those two items kind of offset?

Yes, they do. And I realize now that when I heard that number $13 million on revenue because of the third of the ownership of 38% of the Lincoln Agency, we weren't booking that revenue. So actually instead of the 62% of their revenue, we will be bringing on 100% of their revenue, which is running about $6 million.

Okay. Got it. But then you'll bring on 100% of their expenses as well, right?

Yes.

Okay. And I need to think about that as a normal kind of like 75% or 80% efficiency ratio type insurance business?

Yes.

Great. Thank you.

The next question comes from Kevin Fitzsimmons with D.A. Davidson. Please proceed.

Hey. Good morning, everyone.

Good morning, Kevin.

A lot of questions have been asked and answered already. But one thing I wanted to ask about Drake was mortgage warehouse and where kind of trajectory you expect and where settling point for those loans as we look out over the next several quarters? Thanks.

I've said for the last couple of years that we plan on moving, we're running mortgage warehouse between 10% and 12% of outstandings. We’re down to 14%, so we're tracking pretty close to what we expect to do and still think that that number we talked about for the fourth quarter of $600 million would be pretty close to where we think we're going to end up in the fourth quarter as far as outstandings. We're up to 48 clients. We've got two clients that we’re in the process of booking now. About 50% of our clients use us as their primary provider. And when you look at our strategy around how we price, we've been very aggressive at trying to hold pricing and price at the top of the market. We're not the cheapest out there. We certainly could have brought on some additional transactions if we would have reduced our pricing, but we have stayed focused on this being 10%, 12% of our business. And we feel we're going to be able to hold that pretty well, but yet have decent pricing compared to the marketplace. So about, like I said, 50% of those are our primary. We like these clients to have multiple uses and be able to maneuver through bulges and those types of things. But when we got up to 20% of outstandings, the majority of that was through bulges. Most of those bulges have rolled off to this point. So as those bulges finalize, we'll see us probably come down to around 12% of outstandings where we expected to be in the second quarter.

Okay, great. Very helpful. And if you can just thinking about growth, there's obviously organic growth from just what you have in place and in the markets, there's future team lift-outs. And I'd imagine there'd be some especially with a very large deal about to close down in the Texas region. And that's eminent which – and you guys have seen your multiple improve. Although I sense that you haven't been – that hasn't been as front of or as top of priority as it seems like it has been in the past in terms of what you guys were looking for. So can you kind of – between those three variables, can you talk about where are your priorities for growth? And with team lift-outs, I would imagine there could be tremendous opportunity, but you also want to balance it. You don't want to take too much on at once. You want to maybe let the guys you brought in recent quarters get up to a certain point before you bring new ones on, but just how you're looking at all three of those expansion bullets? Thanks.

Kevin, thanks for that. Because that's a great opener for really how I closed my conversation today. Before we went into questions, we are in a significantly strong position in DFW and Houston, continuing to have opportunities to follow our organic growth strategy and continue lift-out strategies. I want to congratulate Warrie Birdwell and the North Texas Group; they have been significant in focusing on client selection, and we keep talking about client selection. I want to stop for just a second and mention this could have been a year that we would have had double-digit growth without a doubt. But we're here for the long haul. We're an organic grower. We have had opportunities this year, and I'm not going to use the word cleanup our portfolio, but we're really focused on the strengths of our portfolio and exit things that we might not want to be long-term players in. We have been highly successful, and thank goodness we've had a strong market with a lot of liquidity because there are a lot of players out there looking for loan growth. We have stayed focused on attempting to do the best we can at managing low yields. I'm proud of where we are. We have passed on a number of credits that I don't think really fit the client selection profile, but would have been good credits. There would have been transactions, but they would have certainly impacted our margins negatively. So I think our growth, when we start looking at credit quality down the road, the quality of the people that we bring in, we talk about client selection. But when I look at our problems from the past, there was also a component in there; it was around lender and relationship manager selection. We have done an excellent job of ratcheting up the quality of the people that are representing us and the loans that they're bringing on the books. So we will continue to focus on our strategy around organic growth, lift-outs of quality people that fit our portfolio, client selection, and attempt to continue to manage yields. Through that, we see high single-digit growth and maybe getting back into the low double-digit growth in 2022 and 2023. But right now, we're focused on quality, quality, quality, and we're focused on trying to maintain some form of loan yields. And I think we're doing an awesome job.

Great. Thanks, Drake. One last one for me, the allowance ratio now adjusted for PPP and warehouses. I think it's down to 163. Where do you – do you have sort of a long-term settling point for that? When we think about the credit leverage that's ahead, but yet you're going to be growing loans at a decent clip to when we take that ratio down over time, where do you think it kind of settles long-term? Thanks.

Yes. We're going to have to balance methodology with growth coming in; Kevin, when you take back. I think there's $80 million of credits we've pushed out that necessarily we wouldn't have lost money on. I think there was an early question, how much more that's out there? I don't think there's a tremendous amount of that left because we are where we want to be with assisted living for the most part now. So as we look at methodology, I would love to take a very conservative approach and allow us to grow into some of this. I think that we're going to be pushed to release some. But on the other side, as I've had a conversation with our people from a conservative perspective, there are still significant unknowns in this economy out there, and the impact of supply chain, labor inflation, and a number of different things, and we're looking deep into the portfolio where we feel credits could potentially be impacted through those issues. I feel very good about our credit. I've never felt better about our overall credit, the trajectory of our credit quality, and current credit quality. So I will see – you will see some further release probably because methodology is going to force us, but I'm hoping these guys continue to see significant pipeline growth and that we can start applying some of that to growth instead of a release, but that's where I feel like we are today.

Okay. Thanks very much.

Thank you, Kevin.

The next question is a follow-up from Matt Olney with Stephens. Please proceed.

Thanks, guys. Just a few clarifications on the PPP side, and I think you mentioned around $6.3 million of remaining fees. Any estimates or guesses on how much of that could be recognized in the fourth quarter versus next year?

Matt, it's about $1.5 million of the $6.3 million for the fourth quarter. The second quarter was $4.2 million, and the third quarter was $3 million, and that's because of a lot of the forgiveness. And we'll still have some forgiveness process this quarter, but we think it's going to be a majority first and second quarter.

Okay. Got it. And then I guess going back to the insurance acquisition, Drake, what did you mention that the timing of that closing would be?

12/31.

Got it. And then I think you also said on the insurance piece, the acquisition is going to give you a chance to consolidate other agencies as well. And I guess just taking a step back, it sounds like insurance is going to be an important part of the Origin strategy, and I guess we haven't heard. We haven't talked too much about insurance over the last few years on some of these calls. So any more color you can give us on insurance and how important that is to the overall Origin strategy over the next few years?

Matt, I think it's a significant part of our strategy because what we're trying to do is continually drive this company to a better – a higher mix of non-interest income to total income. This is a business that I understand; before I was a banker, I was actually a licensed P&C and life and health agent. So I have that background. But what I enjoy about this business is low risk. It's not capital intense. We have significant management and succession in these agencies. It's a hand-in-glove fit with our C&I business. And through the Lincoln Agency, we feel like there are significant more relationships to be able to pick up there. But what I really have enjoyed about it recently is taking the model very similar to what we do with the bank. We take a rural approach to these smaller agencies that have a lot of consistency. It's allowed us to ramp up our commission rates – commission payout rates. Also, our lost revenue – lost share revenue is enhanced because of the consolidation of these markets. When we take a large agency like Thomas & Farr and Reeves Coon & Funderburg, and now the Lincoln Agency, combining those three agencies, there is going to be some reduction in the back end. So all of those things start to build some efficiency, allowing us to have the infrastructure and model to go out, roll up some of these smaller rural agencies in our marketplace, and then allow us to put significant agent relationships in the Metro markets and not have to pay up to get some of those books. By the way, in the Metro markets, they'll take that book and move on, and you've got an impairment situation. So we like the fact that we're going to use a rural model to go into the Metro markets with significant market representation and be able to drive some real value. We've already seen that start happening in Dallas; our next move is Houston.

Okay. That's perfect. Thanks for that, Drake. And just lastly, on the operating expenses. Steve, you mentioned that the salary line was a little bit heavy this quarter. I guess, taking a step back just overall non-interest expense, where would you point us towards more in the short-term for the fourth quarter, Steve?

About $39 million, same as we had said $38 million, $39 million prior, so we think it'll be closer to $39 million this quarter.

Okay. Great. Thanks, guys.

Matt, I want to talk about – we are working diligently to continue to manage a very flat expense structure, and this is, I think, an important component to us garnering efficiency and still driving what we think is a significant growth engine. As I said with enhancing the customer experience, enhancing technology, this is one of the strong focus of this institution, and we are seeing some real progress with it.

At this time, there are no further questioners in the queue. And this concludes our question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the conference back over to Drake Mills for any closing remarks.

My true appreciation and thanks for each one of your time today. And I will say, as I opened today, that I've never felt more bullish about this organization as a whole. When you look at the quality of the people internally, the success of the organization, our capital position, the opportunities we have in the footprint, the dislocation in the footprint, the asset sensitivity of this institution, all of the things line up to put us in a significant position, and we have impacted 2021 from a growth standpoint slightly to improve the overall quality of the institution. So as I put all of these things together and I sit back and start planning the strategy for 2022 and 2023, we've never been in a better place. I think our growth trajectory and profile in 2022, 2023 is going to be significant. We are in markets that are going to continue to hold up. We are making some strong moves in Houston from a mortgage standpoint. So again, all these things put together, bullish. Very pleased to have each one of you as investors and supporters, and thank you. My phone is always open at (318)-243-2525. Call me if you have any questions, and I'll give you the answers. But anyway, thank you again for your time.

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