FFICHIGH SIGNALMANAGEMENT10-K

FFIC announced a proposed merger with OceanFirst Financial Corp on December 29, 2025, representing a significant strategic transaction that will combine the two banking organizations.

This merger agreement marks a transformative event for FFIC shareholders, as the company will be acquired by OceanFirst through a series of mergers where FFIC becomes the surviving entity in the first step before ultimately combining operations. The transaction will require regulatory approvals and shareholder votes, creating execution risk and timeline uncertainty that investors must monitor closely.

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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

FFIC's balance sheet shows a moderate contraction with total assets declining from $9.0 billion to $8.7 billion while deposits grew slightly from $7.2 billion to $7.3 billion, maintaining stable stockholders' equity at $0.7 billion. The company reduced share buyback activity meaningfully from $29.7 million to $13.2 million and saw cash positions decline from $157.4 million to $81.7 million. The loan portfolio composition remained relatively stable with gross loans decreasing modestly from $6.7 billion to $6.6 billion, maintaining the same mortgage-heavy mix at roughly 79% of total loans.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT CHANGES
Share Buybacks
Cash Flow
-55.6%
$29.7M→$13.2M

Buyback activity reduced 55.6% — capital being redeployed elsewhere or cash conservation underway.

Cash & Equivalents
Balance Sheet
-48.1%
$157.4M→$81.7M

Cash declined 48.1% — significant cash burn or deployment; verify adequacy of remaining liquidity runway.

LANGUAGE CHANGES
NEW — 2026-03-06
PRIOR — 2025-03-11
ADDED
At December 31, 2025, the Company had total assets of $8.7 billion, deposits of $7.3 billion and stockholders equity of $0.7 billion.
At December 31, 2025, we had gross loans outstanding of $6,639.8 million, with gross mortgage loans totaling $5,226.4 million, or 78.7% of gross loans, and commercial business loans totaling $1,413.4 million, or 21.3% of gross loans.
Our primary sources of funds are deposits, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York ( FHLB-NY ) borrowings, principal and interest payments on loans, mortgage-backed, other securities and to a lesser extent proceeds from sales of securities and loans.
Proposed Merger On December 29, 2025, the Company, OceanFirst Financial Corp.
( OceanFirst ), and Apollo Merger Sub Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of OceanFirst ( Merger Sub ), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as it may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms, the merger agreement ), pursuant to which, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the merger agreement, OceanFirst and the Company have agreed to combine their respective businesses through a series of mergers.
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REMOVED
At December 31, 2024, the Company had total assets of $9.0 billion, deposits of $7.2 billion and stockholders equity of $0.7 billion.
During December 2024, the Company issued $70.0 million (gross) of common equity in order to complete a restructuring transaction of the balance sheet.
The Company sold $444.8 million of securities yielding 1.98%, repositioned the borrowings from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York ( FHLB-NY ), and moved $74.0 million of loans to held for sale.
The net result of these and other transactions was a pre-tax loss of $76.0 million.
At December 31, 2024, we had gross loans outstanding of $6,737.8 million, with gross mortgage loans totaling $5,316.2 million, or 78.9% of gross loans, and commercial business loans totaling $1,421.5 million, or 21.1% of gross loans.
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