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Oportun Financial Corp

For the period ended Mar 31, 2024. Filed May 10, 2024.

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Mar 31, 2024 · Filed May 10, 2024

OPRT$11.31-2.5%Stored close · as of Nov 6, 2026

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Overview

We are a mission-driven fintech that puts our members’ financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting capabilities, we empower members with the confidence to build a better financial future. By intentionally designing our products to help solve the financial health challenges facing a majority of people in the U.S., we believe our business is well positioned for significant growth in the future. We take a holistic approach to serving our members and view it as our purpose to responsibly meet their current capital needs, help grow our members’ financial profiles, increase their financial awareness and put them on a path to a financially healthy life. In our 17-year lending history, we have extended more than$18.2 billion in responsible credit through more than 7.0 million loans and credit cards. We have been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution ("CDFI") by the U.S. Department of the Treasury since 2009.

We offer access to a comprehensive suite of financial products, offered either directly or through partners, including lending, and savings powered by A.I. Our financial products allow us to meet our members where they are and assist them with their overall financial health, resulting in opportunities to present multiple relevant products to our members. Our credit products include unsecured and secured personal loans. We also offer automated savings, through our Set & Save platform. Consumers are able to become members and access our products through the Oportun Mobile App and the Oportun.com website, which are our primary channels for onboarding and serving members. As of March 31, 2024 our personal loan products are also available over the phone or through our 129 retail locations, and 426 of our Lending as a Service partner locations.

Credit Products

Personal Loans- Our personal loan is a simple-to-understand, affordable, unsecured, fully amortizing installment loan with fixed payments throughout the life of the loan. We charge fixed interest rates on our loans, which vary based on the amount disbursed and applicable state law, with a cap of 36% annual percentage rate (“APR”) in all cases. As of March 31, 2024, for all active loans in our portfolio and at time of disbursement, the weighted average term and APR at origination was 41 months and 33.2%, respectively. The average loan size for loans we originated during the three months ended March 31, 2024 was $2,993. Our loans do not have prepayment penalties or balloon payments, and range in size from $300 to $10,000 with terms of 12 to 54 months. Generally, loan payments are structured on a bi-weekly or semi-monthly basis to coincide with our members' receipt of income. As part of our underwriting process, we verify income for all applicants and only approve loans that meet our ability-to-pay criteria. As of March 31, 2024, we originated unsecured personal loans in 4 states through state licenses and in 39 states through our partnership with Pathward, N.A.

Secured Personal Loans -In April 2020, we launched a personal installment loan product secured by an automobile, which we refer to as secured personal loans. Our secured personal loans range in size from $2,525 to $18,500 with terms ranging from 24 to 64 months. The average loan size for secured personal loans we originated during the three months ended March 31, 2024 was $6,234. As of March 31, 2024, for all active loans in our portfolio and at time of disbursement, the weighted average term and APR at origination was 52 months and 29.1%, respectively. As part of our underwriting process, we evaluate the collateral value of the vehicle, verify income for all applicants and only approve loans that meet our ability-to-pay criteria. Our secured personal loans are currently offered in California and we are in the process of expanding into other states.

Credit Cards -We launched Oportun® Visa® Credit Card, issued by WebBank, Member FDIC, in December 2019, and offered credit cards in 44 states as of March 31, 2024. Credit lines on our credit cards range in size from$300 to $3,000 with an APR between 24.9% to 29.9%. The average APR of the outstanding credit card receivables was 29.8% as of March 31, 2024. The average credit line for credit cards activated during the three months ended March 31, 2024 was $998. On November 6, 2023, the Company announced that it was exploring strategic options for our credit card portfolio.

Oportun Savings

Savings– Our Savings product, Set & Save, is designed to understand a member’s cash flows and save the right amount on a regular basis to effortlessly achieve savings goals. Set & Save utilizes machine learning to analyze a member’s transaction activity and build forecasts of the member’s future cash flows to make small, frequent savings decisions according to the member’s financial goals in a personalized manner. Members integrate their existing bank accounts into the platform or they can make the Set & Save product their primary banking relationship through a bank partner. After one year using the automated savings product, members have been able to increase their liquid savings by approximately 50%. Since 2015, our savings product has helped members save more than $10.5 billion.

The funds in these savings accounts are owned by members of our products and are not the assets of the Company. Therefore, these funds are not included in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited).

Lending as a Service

Beyond our core direct-to-consumer lending business, we leverage our proprietary credit scoring and underwriting model to partner with other consumer brands and expand our member base. Our first Lending as a Service strategic partner was DolEx Dollar Express, Inc. with an initial launch in December 2020. In October of 2021, we launched another Lending as a Service partnership with Barri Financial Group in select locations (with both DolEx Dollar Express, Inc. and Barri Financial Group now consolidated into a single company “DolFinTech”). We recently re-launched our Lending as a Service program with a new streamlined Lead Generation program through which DolFinTech provides us with information for potential members and we are able to offer loans through our existing channels by phone, online, or in our retail locations. Oportun originates, underwrites, and services the loan. Through this new program, we believe we will be able to offer our Lending as a Service Lead Generation program to additional partners with a much faster lead-to-market time while expanding our membership base with a true Oportun service experience.

In order to strategically realign our resources to focus on other products, on November 6, 2023, we announced the sunsetting of our embedded finance partnership with Sezzle, a provider of Buy Now Pay Later financing options, which launched in the first quarter of 2023.

Capital Markets Funding

To fund our growth at a low and efficient cost, we have built a diversified and well-established capital markets funding program, which allows us to partially hedge our exposure to rising interest rates or credit spreads by locking in our interest expense for up to three years. Over the past ten years, we have executed 21 bond offerings in the asset-backed securities market, the last 18 of which include tranches that have been rated investment grade. We have generally issued two- and three-year fixed rate bonds which have provided us committed capital to fund future loan originations at a fixed Cost of Debt. In higher interest rate environments we may consider issuing amortizing bonds.

Workforce Optimization and Streamlining Operations

During the first quarter of 2024, we made the decision to close 39 retail locations and reduce a portion of the workforce who manage and operate these retail locations. The income statement impact of $0.8 million and was recorded through General, administrative and other on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) for the three months ended March 31, 2024, respectively. These amounts included expenses related to the retail location closures and all severance and benefits-related costs. While we do not expect any significant additional expenses to be incurred related to these closures, we are continually evaluating the performance of retail and partner locations.

During the first quarter of 2023, we announced a series of personnel and other cost savings measures to reduce expenses and streamline efficiency. In relation to these and other personnel related activities, the income statement impact of $6.8 million was recorded through General, administrative and other on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) for the three months ended March 31, 2023, respectively.

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