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USCB Financial Holdings, Inc.
Q3 2025 Form 10-Q
Item 2.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations
The
following
discussion
and
analysis
is
designed
to
provide
a
better
understanding
of
the
consolidated
financial
condition and results of
operations of the
Company and the Bank,
its wholly owned subsidiary,
as of and for
the three and
the nine
months ended
September 30, 2025.
This discussion
and analysis
is best
read in
conjunction with
the unaudited
consolidated financial statements and related
notes included in this Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q (“Form
10-Q”) and the
audited consolidated financial
statements and related
notes included in the
Annual Report on
Form 10-K (“2024
Form 10-
K”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”) for the year ended December 31, 2024.
This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause
actual results to differ materially
from management's expectations. Factors that could cause
such differences are discussed
in the sections
entitled "Forward-Looking
Statements" and Item
1A “Risk Factors"
below
in Part II
hereof and in
the 2024
Form 10-K filed with the SEC which is available at the
SEC’s website www.sec.gov.
Throughout
this
document,
references
to
“we,”
“us,”
“our,”
and
“the
Company”
generally
refer
to
USCB
Financial
Holdings, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
This Form 10-Q
contains statements
that are not
historical in
nature are
intended to
be, and are
hereby identified
as,
forward-looking statements for purposes
of the safe
harbor provided by
Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934,
as amended. The
words “may,” “will,” “anticipate,” “could,”
“should,” “would,” “believe,”
“contemplate,” “expect,” “aim,”
“plan,”
“estimate,” “continue,”
and “intend,”
as well
as other
similar words
and expressions
of the
future, are
intended to
identify
forward-looking
statements.
These
forward-looking
statements
include
statements
related
to
our
projected
growth,
anticipated future
financial performance,
and management’s
long-term performance
goals, as
well as
statements relating
to the anticipated
effects on results
of operations and
financial condition from
expected developments or
events, or business
and growth strategies, including anticipated internal
growth and potential balance sheet restructuring.
These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ
materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not
limited to:
•
the strength of the United States economy
in general and the strength of the local
economies in which we conduct
operations;
•
our ability to successfully manage interest rate risk, credit
risk, liquidity risk, and other risks inherent to our industry;
•
the accuracy of our financial statement estimates and assumptions, including the estimates used for our allowance
for credit losses and deferred tax asset valuation allowance;
•
the efficiency and effectiveness of our
internal control procedures and processes;
•
our ability
to comply
with the
extensive laws
and regulations
to which
we are
subject, including
the laws
for each
jurisdiction where we operate;
•
adverse changes or conditions in capital and financial markets, including actual or potential stresses in
the banking
industry;
•
deposit attrition and the level of our uninsured deposits;
•
legislative or regulatory changes, including the enactment
of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and changes in accounting
principles, policies,
practices or
guidelines, including
the on-going
effects of
the Current
Expected Credit
Losses
(“CECL”) standard;
•
the lack of a
significantly diversified loan
portfolio and our concentration
in the South Florida
market, including the
risks
of geographic,
depositor,
and
industry concentrations,
including our
concentration
in
loans secured
by real
estate, in particular, commercial real
estate;
•
the effects of climate change;
•
the concentration of ownership of our common stock;
•
fluctuations in the price of our common stock;
•
our ability to fund or access the capital markets at attractive
rates and terms and manage our growth, both organic
growth as well as growth through other means, such as
future acquisitions;
•
inflation, interest rate, unemployment rate, market and monetary
fluctuations;
•
the effects of potential new or increased tariffs
,
retaliatory tariffs, and trade restrictions;
•
the effects of
the current federal
government shutdown, including,
but not limited
to, the ability
to sell Small
Business
Administration loans;
•
the impacts of international hostilities and geopolitical events;
•
increased competition and its
effect on the pricing
of our products and services
as well as our interest
rate spread
and net interest margin;
•
the loss of key employees; 30 USCB Financial Holdings, Inc. Q3 2025 Form 10-Q