PROSPERITY BANCSHARES INC

The Company generates the majority of its revenues from interest income on loans, service charges and fees on customer accounts and income from investment in securities. The Company also earns revenues from various additional products and services it provides, including trust services, mortgage lending, brokerage, credit card and independent sales organization sponsorship operations. The Company’s revenues are partially offset by interest expense paid on deposits and other borrowings and noninterest expenses such as administrative and occupancy expenses. Net interest income is the difference between interest income on earning assets such as loans and securities and interest expense on liabilities such as deposits and borrowings which are used to fund those assets. Net interest income is the Company’s largest source of revenue. The level of interest rates and the volume and mix of earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities impact net interest income and margin.

Three principal components of the Company’s growth strategy are internal growth, efficient operations and acquisitions, including strategic merger transactions. The Company focuses on continual internal growth. Each banking center is operated as a separate profit center, maintaining separate data with respect to its net interest income, efficiency ratio, deposit growth, loan growth and overall profitability. The Company also focuses on maintaining efficiency and stringent cost control practices and policies. The Company has centralized many of its critical operations, such as data processing and loan and deposit processing. Management believes that this centralized infrastructure can accommodate substantial additional growth while enabling the Company to minimize operational costs through certain economies of scale. The Company also intends to continue to seek expansion opportunities. On May 1, 2023, the Company acquired First Bancshares, as described under “—Recent Acquisition” below. On October 11, 2022, the Company announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement with Lone Star, as described under “—Pending Acquisition” below.

Net income was $419.3 million, $524.5 million and $519.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively, and diluted earnings per share were $4.51, $5.73 and $5.60, respectively, for these same periods. The change in net income and earnings per diluted share for the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily due to lower net interest income, the FDIC special assessment of $19.9 million, merger related provision for credit losses of $18.5 million, merger related expenses of $15.1 million and additional expenses related to the merger of First Bancshares. During the fourth quarter of 2023, Prosperity accrued for the FDIC special assessment of $19.9 million, which was imposed by the FDIC to recover the cost associated with protecting uninsured depositors following the closures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in early 2023. The increase in net income and earnings per diluted share for the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to an increase in average balances and average rates on investment securities, partially offset by a decrease in PPP fees and interest income of $44.6 million, a decrease in loan discount accretion of $31.9 million and an increase in the average rates on interest-bearing liabilities.

The Company posted returns on average assets of 1.08%, 1.39% and 1.44% and returns on average common equity of 6.03%, 7.97% and 8.21% for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The Company’s efficiency ratio was 50.26% in 2023, 42.23% in 2022 and 41.83% in 2021. The efficiency ratio is calculated by dividing total noninterest expense (excluding net gains and losses on the sale or write down of assets and securities) by the sum of net interest income and noninterest income. Because the ratio is a measure of revenues and expenses resulting from the Company’s lending activities and fee-based banking services, net gains and losses on the sale of assets and securities are not included. Additionally, taxes are not part of this calculation.

Total assets at December 31, 2023 and 2022 were $38.55 billion and $37.69 billion, respectively. Total deposits were $27.18 billion at December 31, 2023, a decrease of $1.35 billion or 4.7% compared with $28.53 billion at December 31, 2022. Total loans were $21.18 billion at December 31, 2023, an increase of $2.34 billion or 12.4% compared with $18.84 billion at December 31, 2022. At December 31, 2023, the Company had $70.9 million in nonperforming loans, and its allowance for credit losses on loans was $332.4 million compared with $25.5 million in nonperforming loans and an allowance for credit losses on loans of $281.6 million at December 31, 2022. Shareholders’ equity was $7.08 billion and $6.70 billion at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.