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Note 23 - Preferred Stock
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Disclosure Text Block Supplement [Abstract]  
Preferred Stock [Text Block]

23. Preferred Stock


On January 9, 2009, as part of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s (“Treasury”) Capital Purchase Program (“CPP”), the Company issued 30,000 shares of Series A, no par value cumulative perpetual preferred stock to the Treasury for $30.0 million. The Company also issued a warrant to the Treasury as part of the CPP. In June 2012, the Treasury conducted an auction in which it sold all of its investment in the Company’s Series A preferred stock to private investors. The Company received no proceeds as part of the transaction. In July 2012, the Company repurchased the warrant it issued to the Treasury. Upon settlement of the warrant repurchase, the Treasury has no remaining equity stake in the Company.


The Company accounted for the allocation of the proceeds received from the issuance of the preferred shares, net of transaction costs, on a pro rata basis between the Series A preferred stock and the warrant based on their relative fair values. The Company assigned $2.0 million and $28.0 million to the warrant and the Series A preferred stock, respectively. The resulting discount on the Series A preferred stock was accreted up to the $30.0 million liquidation amount over the initial five year expected life of the Series A preferred stock. The discount accretion was recorded as additional preferred stock dividends, resulting in an effective dividend rate of 6.56%.


The Series A preferred shares have a liquidation preference of $1 thousand per share (plus any accrued and unpaid dividends) and, since the initial five year period of paying dividends at 5% has expired, currently pay a cumulative cash dividend quarterly of 9% per annum. So long as the preferred shares are outstanding, the Company may not declare or pay a dividend or other distribution on its common stock, and generally may not purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of its common stock, unless all accrued and unpaid dividends on the preferred shares for all past dividend periods are paid in full.


Holders of the preferred shares generally have no voting rights. However, if the Company defers dividend payments on its Series A preferred shares for an aggregate of six quarterly dividend periods, the authorized number of directors of the Company will increase by two and the holders of the Series A preferred shares will have the right to elect directors to fill such director positions at the Company’s next annual meeting of stockholders or special meeting called for that purpose. The Company has made all dividend payments timely on its outstanding preferred shares quarterly and has not made any payment deferrals. The Company may redeem the preferred shares for 100% of the liquidation preference amount at any time, in whole or in part, subject to obtaining prior approval of its banking regulators.


The Company redeemed 20,000 shares of its outstanding preferred stock during 2014 at its stated liquidation value of $1 thousand per share, plus accrued dividends. The shares were approved and redeemed in two separate partial redemptions of 10,000 shares each, as requested, one of which occurred in second quarter and the other in the fourth quarter. There was no additional debt or equity issued in connection with the shares redeemed. There are 10,000 Series A preferred shares outstanding at year-end 2014.