American Bancorp of New Jersey, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2008 Earnings

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American Bancorp of New Jersey, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABNJ) ("American" or the �Company�), the holding company for American Bank of New Jersey (the �Bank�), announced today net income of $431,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. By comparison, net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2007 was $150,000. Basic and diluted earnings per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 were $0.04 and $0.04, respectively. By comparison, for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, basic and diluted earnings per share were $0.01 and $0.01, respectively. The Company�s earnings for the nine months ended June 30, 2008 were $512,000 in comparison to $628,000 for the nine months ended June 30, 2007. Basic and diluted earnings per share for the nine months ended June 30, 2008 were $0.05 and $0.05, respectively. By comparison, for the nine months ended June 30, 2007, basic and diluted earnings per share were $0.05 and $0.05, respectively. For the nine months ended June 30, 2008, loans receivable, net increased $33.3 million or 7.6% to $471.2 million from $437.9 million at September 30, 2007. The growth was comprised of net increases in commercial loans, including multi-family, commercial real estate, construction and business loans, totaling $32.5 million. The increase in loans receivable, net also included net increases in home equity loans and home equity lines of credit totaling $1.8 million and net increases in consumer loans of $247,000. Offsetting the growth in these categories was a $799,000 decrease in the balance of 1-4 family first mortgages and a net increase to the allowance for loan losses totaling $397,000. For that same period, the balance of the Company�s investment securities increased by $27.2 million. This net growth in securities was largely attributable to a wholesale growth transaction in March 2008 through which the Company purchased approximately $50.0 million of mortgage-related investment securities funded by an equivalent amount of borrowings from the FHLB and through reverse repurchase agreements. The net interest income resulting from this transaction is intended to augment the Company�s earnings as it continues to incur the near term costs associated with executing its business plan. The growth in securities associated with this transaction was partially offset by the continued reinvestment of a significant portion of the funds received from maturing debentures and other mortgage-related security repayments into the loan portfolio. The Company�s balance of cash and cash equivalents decreased by $4.8 million which also provided a portion of the funding for the Company�s reported net loan growth and continued share repurchases during the current nine month period. The balance of deposits increased $22.2 million for the nine months ended June 30, 2008. This net growth reflected increases in certificates of deposit and noninterest bearing checking accounts of $36.6 million and $64,000, respectively. This growth was offset by reductions in interest bearing checking and savings accounts of $13.7 million and $819,000, respectively. For the same period, borrowings increased $44.0 million reflecting the additions to FHLB advances and reverse repurchase agreements associated with the $50.0 million wholesale growth transaction noted above offset by the net repayment of $6.0 million of maturing FHLB term advances. Additionally, the Company reported a net increase of $10.5 million in treasury stock attributable primarily to the Company�s share repurchase programs. For the nine months ended June 30, 2008, the Company has repurchased a total of 1,002,070 shares at an average price of $10.44 per share. The Company�s yield on earning assets decreased 26 basis points to 5.43% for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 from 5.69% for the quarter ended June 30, 2007. This decrease reflected the impact of overall reductions in market interest rates on the yields of repricing assets which has more than offset the beneficial impact on earning asset yields resulting from the Company�s growth in higher yielding commercial loans. The decrease in the yield on earning assets between the comparative quarters was outpaced by a reduction in the Company�s interest costs for the same periods. The Company�s cost of interest-bearing liabilities decreased 86 basis points to 3.44% for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 from 4.30% for the quarter ended June 30, 2007. This decrease in interest cost was primarily attributable to two related factors. First, the Company continued to reduce the interest rates paid on deposits generated through the three full service branches opened during fiscal 2007 on which promotional interest rates had originally been paid. Second, reductions in market interest rates enabled the Company to reduce rates paid on many interest-bearing deposit types across all branches. In total, the Company�s net interest spread widened 59 basis points to 1.99% from 1.40% for those same comparative periods. The factors noted in the quarterly discussion above have also effected the Company�s comparative net interest spread for the nine months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007. For these comparative periods, the Company�s net interest spread widened 28 basis points to 1.74% from 1.46%. The increase in net interest spread resulted primarily from a 27 basis point decrease in the Company�s cost of interest-bearing liabilities to 3.88% from 4.15% while the Company�s yield on earnings assets increased by 2 basis points to 5.63% from 5.61%. The factors resulting in the widening of the Company�s net interest spread also positively impacted the Company�s net interest margin for both the three and nine month periods ended June 30, 2008. However, the impact of the Company�s share repurchase plans on net interest margin for each period diminished the benefits of the widening net interest spread. For the comparative three and nine month periods ended June 30, 2008 and 2007, the average balance of treasury stock increased $16.9 million and $19.1 million, respectively, reflecting the Company�s share repurchase activity. The foregone interest income on the earning assets used to fund those share repurchases significantly impacted the Company�s net interest margin reported for the comparative three and nine month periods. For the three months ended June 30, 2008, the Company reported a 21 basis point increase in net interest margin to 2.53% from 2.32% for the same period in 2007. By contrast, for the nine months ended June 30, 2008, the Company reported a 3 basis point reduction in net interest margin to 2.41% from 2.44% for the same period in 2007. The Company reported an increase in net interest income of $649,000 or 21.2% to $3.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 from $3.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2007. This increase was partially offset by a comparatively greater provision to the allowance for loan losses. For those same comparative periods, the Company�s loan loss provision increased $44,000 to $121,000 from $77,000. The provision for loan losses for both comparative periods primarily resulted from the application of historical and environmental loss factors against the net growth in loans in accordance with the Bank�s loan loss methodology. For the nine months ended June 30, 2008, the Company reported an increase in net interest income of $731,000 or 7.9% to $10.0 million from $9.3 million for the nine months ended June 30, 2007. This increase was partially offset by a comparatively greater provision for loan losses. For those same comparative periods, the Company�s loan loss provision increased $111,000 to $431,000 from $320,000. The expense for the nine months ended June 30, 2008 reflected a provision of $34,000 attributable to one impaired construction loan, that portion of which was deemed uncollectible by management during its asset quality review conducted at March 31, 2008 and therefore charged off. The remaining balance of the impaired loan at June 30, 2008, after the charge off, was approximately $146,000. By contrast, the expense in the earlier comparative period reflected a reversal of an $86,000 impairment reserve that was no longer required. Excluding these adjustments, the provision for loan losses for both comparative periods primarily resulted from the application of historical and environmental loss factors against the net growth in loans in accordance with the Bank�s loan loss methodology. For the three month period ended June 30, 2008, noninterest income increased $73,000 to $481,000 from $408,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2007. The growth in noninterest income was largely attributable to increases in deposit service fees and charges. A portion of the increase was attributable to deposit service fees and charges at the Bank�s de novo branches opened during fiscal 2007. However, the reported increase was also due to growth in deposit-related fees and charges within the Bank�s other branches. Additionally, the Company reported increases in income from the cash surrender value of life insurance attributable to a combination of higher average balances and improved yields on those assets. The Company also reported an increase in other noninterest income attributable primarily to growth in loan-related fees and charges including, but not limited to, increases in prepayment penalties and late charges. Offsetting a portion of these increases in noninterest income was the absence of loan sale gains that had been reported during the earlier comparative period when a portion of one-to four-family loans originated were sold into the secondary market � a strategy that was discontinued during fiscal 2008 in favor of adding all loans originated to the Company�s portfolio. For the nine months ended June 30, 2008, noninterest income increased $263,000 to $1.3 million from $1.1 million for the same period in 2007. The growth in noninterest income for the comparative nine month periods was largely attributable to the same factors as those impacting the comparative three month periods discussed above. For the three months ended June 30, 2008, noninterest expense increased $214,000 to $3.4 million from $3.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2007. This growth in noninterest expense was primarily attributable to increases in occupancy and equipment, data processing, legal, professional and consulting and other noninterest expenses. These increases in noninterest expense were partially offset by reductions in salaries and employee benefits and advertising expenses. The reported increase of $224,000 in occupancy and equipment expense is attributable, in part, to the costs of the two additional branches opened in the latter half of fiscal 2007. However, the comparative increase also reflects the ongoing operating costs associated with the Bank�s relocated Bloomfield branch which opened in April, 2008. Additionally, the increase includes the cost associated with outsourcing a significant portion of the Company�s information technology infrastructure support services that had been provided by in-house resources during the earlier comparative period. The reported increase of $16,000 in data processing charges was also largely attributable to the associated costs of the two additional branches opened in the latter half of fiscal 2007 including both core processing and item processing expenses. The reported increase in legal expense was primarily attributable to recently completed revisions to benefit plan agreements as required by newly-implemented Internal Revenue Service regulations while the increase in professional and consulting expenses resulted from additional costs associated with disaster recovery and physical security planning and review services utilized during the more recent comparative quarter. Finally, the growth in other noninterest expense includes increases in FDIC insurance expense resulting from both growth in the balance of FDIC-insured deposits plus the expiration of FDIC insurance credits which had reduced the Bank�s net cost of FDIC deposit insurance over several prior quarters. Increases in noninterest expense also included increases in corporate insurance and regulatory assessment expenses. The reported net decrease in compensation expense reflects, in part, the absence in the current period of the changes in director retirement plan benefit accrual assumptions that had increased the related expenses during the earlier comparative period. The remaining portion of the decrease is largely attributable to accrued compensation expense reductions based on current year bonus projections. Notwithstanding these factors, other increases in compensation expense attributable to the two additional branches opened in the latter half of fiscal 2007 have been largely offset by the Company�s other compensation expense control efforts which have resulted in a nearly 10% reduction in the number of full time equivalent employees during fiscal 2008. Similarly, the absence of denovo branch grand opening costs resulted in the reduction in advertising costs reported for the more recent comparative quarter. For the nine months ended June 30, 2008, noninterest expense increased $1.1 million to $10.3 million from $9.1 million for the same period in 2007. The growth in noninterest expense for the comparative nine month periods was generally attributable to the same factors as those impacting the comparative three month periods discussed above. Additionally, the reported increase in compensation expense for the nine month period included a charge resulting from the death of a director emeritus of the Company during the second fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2008. Under the terms of the Company�s restricted stock and stock option plans, the vesting of the remaining unearned benefits accruing to the former director through these plans was automatically accelerated. As such, the Company incurred an acceleration of the remaining pre-tax expenses associated with these benefits totaling approximately $254,000 during that quarter. The following tables present selected balance sheet data as of June 30, 2008 and September 30, 2007 and selected operating data for the three months and nine months ended June 30, 2008 and June 30, 2007. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (unaudited) � � At June 30, � At September 30, 2008 2007 � Balance � % Total Assets Balance � % Total Assets SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA(in thousands): Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 32,643 5.18 % $ 37,421 6.52 % Securities available-for-sale 85,136 13.50 58,093 10.13 Securities held-to-maturity 6,856 1.09 6,730 1.17 Loans held for sale - - 1,243 0.22 Loans receivable, net 471,220 74.70 437,883 76.32 Premises and equipment 12,038 1.91 10,856 1.89 Federal Home Loan Bank stock 3,014 0.48 2,553 0.45 Cash surrender value of life insurance 13,619 2.16 13,214 2.30 Accrued interest receivable 2,365 0.37 2,212 0.39 Other assets � 3,832 � 0.61 � � 3,533 � 0.61 � Total assets $ 630,723 � 100.00 % $ 573,738 � 100.00 % Liabilities and equity Deposits $ 450,760 71.47 % $ 428,600 74.70 % Advances for taxes and insurance 2,925 0.46 2,702 0.47 Borrowings 81,564 12.93 37,612 6.56 Other liabilities 4,581 0.73 4,231 0.74 Equity � 90,893 � 14.41 � � 100,593 � 17.53 � Total liabilities and equity $ 630,723 � 100.00 % $ 573,738 � 100.00 % � � Loan Data � Balance % Total Loans � Balance % Total Loans 1-4 family mortgage loans $ 262,648 55.74 % $ 263,448 60.16 % Home equity loans 14,446 3.07 14,625 3.34 Home equity lines of credit 21,795 4.63 19,829 4.53 Multifamily mortgage loans 33,326 7.07 30,552 6.98 Nonresidential mortgage loans 85,520 18.15 68,431 15.63 Land and property acquisition loans 5,241 1.11 3,340 0.76 Construction loans 41,849 8.88 32,542 7.43 Business loans 8,458 1.79 7,029 1.61 Consumer loans 902 0.19 655 0.15 Allowance for loans losses � (2,965 ) (0.63 ) � (2,568 ) (0.59 ) Loans receivable, net $ 471,220 � 100.00 % $ 437,883 � 100.00 % � � Deposit Data � Balance % Total Deposits � Balance % Total Deposits Noninterest-bearing deposits 30,558 6.78 % 30,494 7.11 % Interest-bearing checking 98,128 21.77 111,795 26.08 Savings 91,959 20.40 92,778 21.65 Certificates of deposit � 230,115 � 51.05 � � 193,533 � 45.16 � Deposits $ 450,760 � 100.00 % $ 428,600 � 100.00 % FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (continued) (unaudited) � � At June 30, � At September 30, 2008 2007 Capital Ratios Equity to total assets (%) 14.41 17.53 Outstanding shares (#) 10,948,286 11,946,190 Asset Quality Ratios: Non-performing loans to total loans (%) 0.19 0.28 Non-performing assets to total assets (%) 0.14 0.22 Allowance for loan losses to non-performing loans (%) 332.16 205.56 Allowance for loan losses to total loans (%) 0.63 0.58 � For thenine months endedJune 30, For thethree months endedJune 30, 2008 � 2007 2008 � 2007 SELECTED OPERATING DATA(in thousands): Total interest income $ 23,387 $ 21,375 $ 7,963 $ 7,508 Total interest expense � 13,366 � � 12,085 � � 4,250 � � 4,444 � Net interest income 10,021 9,290 3,713 3,064 Provision for loan losses � 431 � � 320 � � 121 � � 77 � Net interest income after provision for loan losses 9,590 8,970 3,592 2,987 Noninterest income 1,314 1,051 481 408 Noninterest expense � 10,263 � � 9,117 � � 3,420 � � 3,204 � Income (loss) before income taxes 641 904 653 191 Provision (benefit) for income taxes � 129 � � 276 � � 222 � � 41 � Net income (loss) $ 512 � $ 628 � $ 431 � $ 150 � Performance Ratios: Return on average assets 0.12 % 0.16 % 0.28 % 0.11 % Return on average equity 0.72 0.75 1.89 0.56 Net interest rate spread 1.74 1.46 1.99 1.40 Net interest margin 2.41 2.44 2.53 2.32 Noninterest income to average total assets 0.30 0.26 0.31 0.29 Noninterest expense to average total assets 2.32 2.27 2.20 2.30 Efficiency Ratio 90.55 88.16 81.52 92.29 PER SHARE DATA: Earnings per share Basic 0.05 0.05 0.04 0.01 Diluted 0.05 0.05 0.04 0.01 The foregoing material contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 concerning our financial condition, results of operations and business. We caution that such statements are subject to a number of uncertainties and actual results could differ materially, and, therefore, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. We do not undertake, and specifically disclaim, any obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions that may be made to any forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statements.

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