Cuộc họp công bố kết quả kinh doanh Quý 3/2026 của Amalgamated Financial (AMAL): Thu nhập kỷ lục và nâng dự báo kinh doanh

Điểm tin chính

• Lợi nhuận thuần cốt lõi đạt mức kỷ lục 34,6 triệu USD, tương đương 1,14 USD trên mỗi cổ phiếu pha loãng, trong khi doanh thu thuần lần đầu tiên vượt 100 triệu USD.
• Thu nhập lãi thuần tăng lên mức kỷ lục 87,9 triệu USD, với biên lãi thuần duy trì ở mức 3,77%. Tỷ lệ chi phí trên thu nhập cốt lõi giữ ở mức khoảng 49%.
• Tiền gửi nội bảng tăng 256 triệu USD trong quý lên 8,7 tỷ USD. Tiền gửi chính trị vẫn ở mức gần 2 tỷ USD vào cuối quý nhưng giảm xuống khoảng 1,7 tỷ USD tính đến ngày 15 tháng 10 do chi tiêu cho bầu cử tăng tốc.
• Dư nợ cho vay thương mại tăng khoảng 93 triệu USD và các khoản tài trợ C-PACE tăng 54,2 triệu USD. Dư nợ thế chấp nhà ở và cho vay điện mặt trời tiêu dùng có lợi suất thấp hơn tiếp tục giảm dần theo kế hoạch.
• Ban lãnh đạo đã nâng triển vọng thu nhập lãi thuần năm 2026 lên 341 triệu - 342 triệu USD và triển vọng lợi nhuận cốt lõi trước thuế và trước dự phòng rủi ro lên 193 triệu - 194 triệu USD.
• Biên lãi thuần quý 4 dự kiến sẽ thu hẹp nhẹ khi tiền gửi chính trị không tính lãi giảm xuống, nhưng ban lãnh đạo nhận thấy triển vọng biên lãi thuần mở rộng trở lại trong năm 2027 khi cơ cấu tiền gửi và lợi suất tài sản cải thiện.

Dữ liệu tài chính cốt lõi

Kết quả kinh doanh và hoạt động

Amalgamated Financial đã giải ngân nguồn tiền gửi vào các tài sản có sinh lời cao hơn, đồng thời để các khoản thế chấp nhà ở và cho vay điện mặt trời tiêu dùng có lợi suất thấp hơn thu hồi dần. Tài sản sinh lãi tăng 141 triệu USD trên các mảng cho vay, PACE và chứng khoán truyền thống, trong khi các danh mục thu hồi dòng tiền đã tạo ra khoảng 39 triệu USD tiền mặt để tái đầu tư.

C-PACE tiếp tục là ưu tiên hàng đầu trong phân bổ vốn. Các tài sản C-PACE mới phát hành trong quý đạt lợi suất khoảng 7%. Ban lãnh đạo cho biết các khoản phát hành trong tương lai có thể đạt 7,75% và tiềm năng tiến gần mốc 8% trong năm 2027, tùy thuộc vào điều kiện thị trường. Ngân hàng cũng đang mở rộng các đối tác phát hành và tìm kiếm các giao dịch với nhiều quy mô, khu vực địa lý và loại hình bất động sản khác nhau.

Công ty duy trì khoảng 5 tỷ USD tiền mặt, hạn mức vay và chứng khoán chưa thế chấp. Ban lãnh đạo cho biết nguồn thanh khoản này sẽ giúp ngân hàng quản lý dòng tiền gửi rút ra liên quan đến bầu cử mà không cần phụ thuộc vào nguồn vốn vay.

Amalgamated tiếp tục đầu tư vào các công cụ tích hợp AI, hạ tầng công nghệ và nhân tài. Các sáng kiến này nhằm mục đích đơn giản hóa hoạt động, tăng cường kiểm soát và hỗ trợ mở rộng kinh doanh mà không làm gia tăng tương ứng độ phức tạp.

Dự báo của ban lãnh đạo

Ban lãnh đạo dự kiến quy mô bảng cân đối kế toán sẽ ở trạng thái trung tính trong quý 4 khi chu kỳ bầu cử kết thúc. Thu nhập lãi thuần quý 4 dự kiến sẽ tương đương với mức quý 3, trong khi biên lãi thuần sẽ thu hẹp nhẹ do có sự dịch chuyển từ tiền gửi thanh toán không tính lãi (DDA) sang các khoản tiền gửi có tính lãi.

Tiền gửi DDA chiếm khoảng 42% tổng tiền gửi vào cuối quý 3 và dự kiến sẽ giảm xuống khoảng 36% vào cuối quý 4. Ban lãnh đạo kỳ vọng số dư DDA sẽ phục hồi trong năm 2027, tạo tiền đề cho khả năng mở rộng biên lãi thuần cùng với lợi suất tài sản cao hơn.

Chi phí quý 4 dự kiến sẽ duy trì ở mức gần tương đương quý 3 hoặc tăng nhẹ. Các chi phí thuê trùng, di dời và hoàn trả mặt bằng sẽ tiếp tục phát sinh, nhưng ban lãnh đạo không kỳ vọng chi phí sẽ tăng đột biến. Khi các chi phí này giảm dần, khoản đầu tư vào hạ tầng công nghệ và nhân sự dự kiến sẽ thế chỗ thay vì làm giảm tổng mức chi phí thường xuyên.

Rủi ro và các vấn đề cần theo dõi

• Dòng tiền gửi chính trị rút ra liên quan đến bầu cử sẽ làm thay đổi cơ cấu nguồn vốn và tạo áp lực ngắn hạn lên biên lãi thuần.
• Mối quan hệ cho vay bất động sản nhiều hộ gia đình tại khu vực Washington, D.C. đã công bố trước đó vẫn đang trong quá trình thảo luận giải quyết. Ban lãnh đạo đang đánh giá khả năng bán nợ đối với một số bất động sản không ngưng dồn tích lãi nhằm bảo toàn giá trị.
• Lãi suất cao hơn làm tăng rủi ro tái tài trợ trong mảng cho vay bất động sản nhiều hộ gia đình. Ngân hàng đang chú trọng các giao dịch có tỷ lệ đòn bẩy thấp hơn và theo dõi sát các khoản nợ sắp đến hạn.
• Ban lãnh đạo đang cân nhắc các phương án đẩy nhanh việc giảm danh mục cho vay điện mặt trời tiêu dùng do hiệu quả hoạt động và hiệu quả kinh tế liên quan đến CECL kém hấp dẫn hơn so với các phương án sử dụng vốn khác.
• Tăng trưởng C-PACE bền vững một phần phụ thuộc vào sự hỗ trợ về mặt quản lý nhà nước đối với đầu tư năng lượng sạch.

Nội dung nổi bật trong phần Q&A với chuyên gia phân tích

Các chuyên gia phân tích tập trung vào sự chững lại trong quý 4 được thể hiện qua dự báo của ban lãnh đạo. Công ty giải thích rằng sự tạm dừng dự kiến này chủ yếu do sự sụt giảm thông thường theo chu kỳ bầu cử của số dư DDA chính trị, chứ không phải do sự thay đổi trong quỹ đạo doanh thu dài hạn.

Về định giá tiền gửi, ban lãnh đạo cho biết còn quá sớm để xác định hệ số beta của chu kỳ hiện tại. Hệ số beta tiền gửi chịu lãi của Amalgamated ở mức dưới 40% đôi chút trong chu kỳ tăng lãi suất trước đó, và công ty dự kiến chi phí vốn sẽ duy trì tương đối ổn định.

Ban lãnh đạo xác định C-PACE là điểm đến đặc biệt hấp dẫn cho nguồn vốn giải phóng từ danh mục điện mặt trời tiêu dùng. Ngân hàng dự báo lãi suất cao hơn sẽ hỗ trợ nhu cầu tài trợ PACE, mặc dù mức sản lượng 54,2 triệu USD trong quý 3 đại diện cho một mức cao trong quý và có thể không lặp lại ngay lập tức.

Về việc hoàn trả vốn, ban lãnh đạo cho biết mua lại cổ phiếu vẫn là một phần trong chiến lược hoàn trả vốn cho cổ đông. Công ty đã nâng hạn mức ủy quyền mua lại cổ phiếu lên 40 triệu USD trước quý 3 và đã thực hiện trong quý, nhưng không tuân theo một lịch trình mua lại cố định.

Toàn văn Biên bản Cuộc họp Báo cáo Kết quả Kinh doanh

Toàn văn cuộc gọi công bố kết quả kinh doanh

Phần trình bày của ban lãnh đạo

Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Amalgamated Financial Corporation Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call.

[Operator Instructions] A replay of the call and the accompanying slides are available on our Investor Relations website. Please review the forward-looking statements and non-GAAP disclosures on Slide 2. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Jason Darby, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Jason Darby

Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate your participation in our earnings call. With me today is Priscilla Sims Brown, our President and Chief Executive Officer. Additionally, Sam Brown, our Chief Banking Officer, is here for the Q&A portion of today's call. We'll keep our prepared remarks brief to limit repeating details you've already reviewed in the earnings materials. I'll now turn the call over to Priscilla.

Priscilla Sims Brown

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. We delivered another strong quarter, and I'm very pleased with both our results and the continued progress we're making against our strategy. What stands out to me this quarter is not simply the level of performance, but the consistency of our execution and the way the different elements of our strategy are increasingly reinforcing one another.

Our differentiated deposit franchise continues to provide a strong foundation for the bank. We are putting that funding and our capital to work deliberately, focusing on opportunities where we believe we can generate attractive risk-adjusted return while serving the customers and communities at the core of our mission. We saw that clearly in the balance sheet this quarter. On-balance sheet deposits increased $256 million during the quarter to $8.7 billion, while off-balance sheet deposits totaled $1.1 billion. Very notably, political deposits remained at approximately $2 billion while also moving beyond the peak of the prior presidential election cycle. Growth across our mission-aligned customer segments continue to demonstrate the strength, resiliency and diversity of our bank. We also maintained approximately $5 billion of cash, borrowing capacity and unpledged securities, providing substantial liquidity and strategic flexibility. That funding strength allowed us to deploy capital into nicely balanced opportunities across the balance sheet.

Commercial loans increased approximately $93 million during the quarter and C-PACE assessments increased approximately $54.2 million. At the same time, lower-yielding residential mortgages and consumer solar balances declined through planned runoff, allowing us to redeploy that capital into higher-performing assets. This is a good example of how we expect to continue converting the strength of our pipeline into attractive deployment opportunities in the quarters ahead.

Importantly, our focus remains on the quality and economics of that growth, not simply on adding assets. At the same time, we continue to invest for the future. During the quarter, we advanced several modernization initiatives -- we expanded the use of AI-enabled tools across the organization, and we continued building the technology foundation to support our long-term ambitions. These investments are designed to simplify how we operate, improve the customer and employee experience, strengthen our control environment and enable us to support more business without adding complexity at the same pace.

Just as importantly, we continued investing in our people. We strengthened their capabilities to better serve our communities and our customers. Taken together, this is the strategy at work. We are putting our differentiated funding base and capital to work more effectively while building the capabilities that allow us to serve our customers better and sustain stronger performance over time.

We're focused on creating greater value from the franchise we've built with the discipline and risk management that have always defined how we operate. Our strong balance sheet, differentiated deposit franchise, mission-driven customer base and disciplined execution give us the confidence in both where we are today and the opportunity ahead. With that, I'll turn the call over to Jason.

Jason Darby

Thanks, Priscilla. Last quarter, we discussed harvesting the earnings power of the bank. And this quarter, I'll spend some time talking about how that earnings power is showing up in the numbers. The earnings profile of the company continues to strengthen. Core net income increased to a record $34.6 million or $1.14 per diluted share. Net revenue exceeded $100 million for the first time in the bank's history.

Net interest income reached a record $87.9 million while maintaining a net interest margin of 3.77%. And core profitability metrics again improved to record levels as core return on average assets increased to 1.44% and core return on average tangible common equity increased to 16.57%. Collectively, these results demonstrate both strong and consistent performance.

We reached our target balance sheet size of approximately $9.6 billion this quarter by adding $141 million of interest-earning assets across the lending, PACE and traditional securities portfolios. Runoff loan portfolios generated approximately $39 million of redeployed cash -- and while we believe our balance sheet is well optimized, we are considering ways to accelerate reduction of our consumer solar loan portfolio as we continue pursuing productive revenue generation and future profitability. The scalability of the bank is starting to show.

Revenue growth allowed us to continue investments in our technology ecosystem and necessary talent and also absorb an expected increase in occupancy expense associated with our headquarters move. Our core efficiency ratio remained remarkably stable at approximately 49%, demonstrating the positive operating leverage embedded within the bank and providing a glimpse into the long-term value we believe is still ahead of us. Our key takeaway this quarter is that our outlook remains favorable.

Credit performance remained stable overall. Pass rated loans continue to represent approximately 97% of the portfolio. Annualized net charge-offs declined to 20 basis points, and we continue actively managing the previously discussed multifamily relationship. As another election cycle concludes in Q4, we expect to run a neutral balance sheet.

We are comfortable with our liquidity position and ability to limit both NII and margin volatility. With that, we are increasing our net interest income outlook for the year from a high end of $340 million to a range of $341 million to $342 million, but project modest margin compression in the fourth quarter related to the DDA, IBA deposit remix as the election cycle concludes. For core pretax pre-provision earnings, we are raising from the prior high-end target of $190 million to a new range of $193 million to $194 million, driven mainly by our strong Q3 performance. In upcoming quarters, you'll hear us talk about meaningful but responsible growth.

This means growing in a way that strengthens the bank rather than simply enlarging it. We're not attempting to become a larger bank for the sake of size. We are building a more productive bank. The objective is to generate stronger earnings, efficient returns and increasing operating leverage with less inherent structural risk. Said differently, the objective is to derive more value from each incremental dollar of asset growth.

We believe the strongest banks are not those that grow the fastest, but those that become more productive. That philosophy benefits all our stakeholders by requiring strong financial performance, expansion of our capacity to serve customers and scale a model for financial success and community impact. Ultimately, the point is, as Amalgamated grows, the voice and impact of the mission-driven communities we serve grows with us. And we're now ready for questions.

Operator

[Operator Instructions]

Our first question comes from the line of David Konrad with KBW.

Phần hỏi đáp

David Konrad

Going through the pleasantries there, but I wanted to talk to Jason a little bit about the guide. Maybe run through a little bit of the NII because that seems off of a strong quarter of kind of flat next quarter and then PPNR looks to be down a bit quarter-on-quarter. I don't know if that's maybe seasonal fourth quarter expenses. So maybe kind of highlight a little bit more of the guide.

Jason Darby

So the fourth quarter is going to follow the natural cyclicality pattern that Amalgamated has just as election cycles conclude. And the NII probably will look very similar to the amount that we had in the third quarter as a result of really just the mix shifting that's going to happen through the funding base as the larger portion of DDA balances starts to decline to support the election conclusion.

So the NII has no real ability to lift from this period unless we decide to grow the balance sheet, which we have indicated we're going to leave a neutral balance sheet because our main focus is really to serve the liquidity needs and limit any volatility that's rolling through the NII vis-a-vis borrowings. So that's really the NII guide as a flattening, but I don't think that's going to be the trajectory.

I think when we start to get out into next year, we'll start to see NII lifting again, and we'll talk more about that when we get into the guidance issue that we'll give at the end of the fourth quarter. But I think this period coming up will be a little bit of the pause in the momentum of the growth in revenue in other areas of the bank while we get through the election conclusion.

Then on the PPNR side, I think the PPNR largely the growth is fueled by the outperformance that we had in this quarter. We're being modest in our expectations for NII, as I said. I think expenses will be generally close to where we are here in the third quarter, maybe tick up slightly. And on the noninterest income side, I think we had an outsized quarter this quarter just as a result of a valuation adjustment from an equity investment we had. So all things equal, I think that's where we are sitting with the PPNR guide. Our hope is we'll overperform, but want to give you what we think is the most reasonable expectation.

David Konrad

Great. And then maybe with the Fed move and we did one in December as well, what are your thoughts on deposit betas given the remix and what you think that will be in the next couple of quarters?

Jason Darby

Sure. So it's a little too early to tell just on this quarter alone how the deposit betas are behaving just because it happened such kind of late period at the end of this quarter and then there just wasn't a lot of movement from our pricing.

If you look at our average posted rates, actually ticked slightly down from quarter-over-quarter. So I don't have a great lens on just what that beta is going to look like. But if I thought about the historical for Amalgamated and the last rising rate cycle, which was the fastest one we've had in 50 years or so, the interest-bearing deposit beta was just under 40% throughout the entire cycle.

So I think the signal from us is that we're going to intend to be competitive on pricing. We're going to move with the market. Typically, we enjoy a lower beta just by natural flow than the market, but that doesn't mean we're trying to manage to that. And historically, I think we have been better than our beta assumptions. And I think that's an important thing, too.

So when we talk about our NII guide, which we'll give at the end of the fourth quarter in January, typically, we have very conservative beta assumptions, but usually, we do better than that. And hopefully, that will give you an indication of how we're thinking about deposit costs going through the cycle and what our betas might look like. But absent the beta discussion, I still think you can count on Amalgamated to have a very stable cost of funds trajectory. And I still believe this is very much an asset yield story as we get out into 2027 for the opportunity for potential margin expansion to continue.

David Konrad

Got it. And then maybe the last question for me. You kind of talked about looking for avenues to further reduce the consumer solar. Is there an opportunity -- I mean, the PACE product has been kind of a stable growth. Is there an opportunity to accelerate maybe C-PACE growth rates in 2027?

Jason Darby

Yes. I'm going to ask Sam to comment that in a moment, but I think that's exactly right. We are looking for ways to optimize our capital to move into PACE as a primary feature. There's other areas where we can deploy.

But the consumer solar portfolio, just given the way it's behaving the way that our CECL model is driving economics both in this quarter and into the future, really makes us want to accelerate movement of that portfolio liquidity into a different asset class like PACE. Sam, you can talk about our expectations for growth.

Sam Brown

Yes. Obviously, David, we're really excited about what we saw in PACE for this quarter with $54 million. I think this quarter was benefited from a lot of activity that I want to make sure we're being transparent about what the next quarter will look like.

That was a very high mark. That said, we really like PACE for forward reasons because PACE historically has had a really good reaction in rising rate environments. And so we hope that our opportunities for origination will actually expand here as rates continue to move and feel like that's a win for us.

We also saw a lot of great PACE production at both ends of the spectrum, both in large transactions but also in our small dollar program as well. So we're looking at ways we can continue to grow those opportunity sets and expand our origination partners. So we agree with you, we would love to be doing more and have that as a very strong target for us in terms of 3 legs of our asset generation stool.

Priscilla Sims Brown

I'll just underscore that point about the diversification of the PACE program this quarter, not only in terms of size, but also multiple geographies and property types. And I think a lot depends on regulatory support for clean energy investment. We think that, that will lend itself to sustainable C-PACE growth.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Steve Moss with Raymond James.

Stephen Moss

Nice quarter here. Maybe just following up here in terms of business activity. Just curious, given the rate volatility, how you guys are thinking about overall loan growth here going forward and wondering if you're seeing any impacts from higher rates with regard to multifamily or other commercial borrowers.

Sam Brown

Yes. Steve, it's Sam. So look, we are obviously making sure we're being responsive to the change out there. For us, rising rate environment, we really look at this across our 3 asset areas. In multifamily, it's really about managing our refinance risk and making sure that we're managing our credit standards and focusing on lower leverage deals because we want to continue that efficient NII growth that we've demonstrated. And we think we've got a really high-quality pipeline to do just that.

Certainly, looking out ensuring a long lead time on any maturities that are coming due, you've seen as we put that out, what that looks like in '27 and beyond. In C&I, specifically and in our focus areas, the biggest impact of higher rates have really been to -- they show up in the form of increased sponsor equity that's needed to get these deals done.

And that's because in the C&I transactions, particularly in the energy space, these deals and these projects have to get finished because of the calendars that come from the tax credit expirations in '27 and '30. And so we view that as -- that's positive for us because, again, the acceleration to bring those projects forward is continuing.

And then lastly, I just mentioned on PACE, I won't repeat myself, but historically, we've seen some tailwind activity on that in a rising rate environment. So you put all that together, we think we've got a diversified pipeline, a high-quality pipeline and it can adapt to what the needs are of the bank as we move forward.

Stephen Moss

Okay. Great. Appreciate that color there. And maybe just in terms of -- on the subject of multifamily, the borrower in D.C. kind of curious if you can provide any update with regard to that credit.

Jason Darby

Yes. Steve, it's Jason. The relationship that we've disclosed before in the D.C. area continues to work through a resolution process. Actually, this quarter, we didn't really have any activity relative to the potential ability to dispose of any of those assets, not that we weren't working on it, but there was nothing that was recordable.

I think going forward, there's still an appetite to get something done to move some of those more degraded properties that we previously disclosed as nonaccrual at the end of last year in some form of a note sale where that will end up. I'm not exactly sure. We're not really ready to move off of our provision forecast. I still think a $5 million or $5.5 million number for Q4 from a provision expense perspective is appropriate. And hopefully, we'll be able to find some resolution there. But the overall discussion has been constructive. The borrower is engaged and the bank is continuing to look for all areas to preserve value, and we'll have more to update as things unfold.

Stephen Moss

Okay. Appreciate that. And then on the margin here, with higher rates, you guys historically run at a lower beta. That should obviously be pretty favorable for your margin trends over the next year or so if we stay up here.

Just kind of curious maybe a couple of things. Where are new PACE originations coming on? And just as you think about maturities and repricing here and new loans on the books, kind of how you're thinking about that margin trending beyond the short-term compression we'll see in the fourth quarter? Any thoughts just given the shift in the rates in the last 90 days?

Jason Darby

Yes. I think Sam pointed out quite nicely that PACE traditionally does pretty well in a higher rate environment, just more consumers are in place and the construction projects or the capital projects that offer this additional slice, that becomes very advantageous capital placement for builders that are looking for improvements to projects. And so we think there's a good opportunity to keep building assets in that class as the rate environment potentially continues to rise.

Where we brought things on in the quarter was around 7% across the broader PACE portfolio. And I would expect going forward -- it could be as high as 775 (sic) [ 7.75% ]. We could start approaching an 8 number as you look out into 2027. So the risk-adjusted returns in that asset class are phenomenal.

It's again why Sam and we have been forecasting or signaling for a while that we intend to move more aggressively into that asset class, not to diminish the impact of any of the other asset class that we have with the bank, but PACE is a particularly compelling opportunity for us. And then I think you're right on the point about the margin in that -- we'll have a little compression probably here in the fourth quarter just as the election concludes and deposits have remixed. But as the DDA balances continue to build throughout 2027, that naturally has a mitigating impact on any rising cost of funds related to deposit beta activity. And the asset yield story still is an area where Amalgamated has a tremendous harvesting opportunity. And so we don't have our guidance ready for 2027, but we feel very comfortable that there should be a good margin expansion opportunity throughout the year as we look into the opportunities that lie ahead for us.

Operator

And our next question comes from the line of Justin Crowley with Piper Sandler.

Justin Crowley

Maybe just to start with one for either Sam or whomever. It looks like you saw a little bit of the runoff on the political side, deposit side, maybe just a little earlier than the last election cycle. And you are obviously also close to it.

So just curious if you could share any insights on what you've seen out of those deposit customers? And maybe just any early thoughts, and I know it's tough to predict, but just on how you think those flows could trend and then eventually rebuild over the next couple of quarters.

Sam Brown

Yes. Justin, it's Sam. So we were really pleased with the fact that we did end the quarter at $2 billion, which was flat from the prior quarter, which was the record for us. And then we do disclose in our deck, as you saw, that came down to about $1.7 billion that we disclosed as of 10/15, which really we want to indicate we are obviously in the spend down phase as we near election day here.

I think the best kind of color I can give for you is to really look at that trend that we've demonstrated over the track record of how long we've been doing this. In the chart, I think it is the right shape. I think that trend makes sense. But I would pivot also to just remind you that we are really pleased with the diversification we're seeing in all of our other deposit segments. Between the nonprofit and the labor, we were up about $4 million on the quarter, and that really comes through.

And so I think it's all part of a bigger puzzle. And we obviously, through all of the strategic management we put in place in order to kind of understand what's coming from political runoff and be able to work around that to still deliver strong and efficient NII, we feel good that we've got our arms around it.

Jason Darby

And then, Justin, maybe I can just add some targets for you. Still in a very good place from an off-balance sheet perspective at the end of the quarter as well, over $1 billion there. So as the deposits have started to run off, we still feel very good about being able to handle the election conclusion without needing a borrowing position.

And so we're really trying to manage our liquidity from that perspective. But in terms of how it would flow through from a margin, if that's maybe where you're going, the target, at least that we're looking at would be DDA was about 42% of total deposits at the end of the quarter. Probably going to be somewhere in the 36% range when we get to the end of the fourth quarter. And you can get a sense for the mix shift.

Obviously, as DDA starts to flow out, that will be replaced by interest-bearing off-balance sheet deposits, and that changes the funding mix and that changes the margin. So I talked a little bit about the margin compression that will happen here in the fourth quarter.

But to Sam's point, the historical trend is a very good measure to look at in terms of how that political balance will rebuild, and we expect DDA will be a growing component of the deposit mix throughout 2027, which is giving some of the basis at the cost of funds level from my comments earlier about opportunistic margin expansion in 2027.

Justin Crowley

Okay. That's all super helpful. I guess just pivoting a little just kind of going back to expenses. I know there's a little bloat from the double rent. How much of that if you're able to quantify and the timing also of when that eventually falls out of the run rate? And I know you can probably get more specific on January, but maybe just some broader thoughts on expense levels as we move out into next year.

Jason Darby

Yes, absolutely. So I think you're going to see a little bit more of the impact of the double rent plus the building move costs in general. There's restoration costs we have to incur for the previous building that we've exited from. And so that will continue into the fourth quarter.

Now we've planned for that, and I don't expect expenses to spike materially at all from where we are here in the third quarter. But as I've said before, I'm not also expecting as those expenses run off for that to be thought of as a reduction in the overall expense run rate. The expenses that run off will be replaced by deferred costs that have been put on the balance sheet related to technology investment infrastructure, other talent moves that we've been making to continue to augment the staff.

And so when we think about expenses out into the future, and I don't want to get too far ahead, I do think there's a natural continuation of Amalgamated investing in itself, but I think we'll always follow our core constraints, which are typically searching for positive operating leverage, making sure that revenues are, in fact, paying for the expenses that we're incurring so they become investments and also making sure that core efficiency is starting to become thought of as a very important and meaningful measurement for the bank in terms of what we're doing with the spend itself. And if that gives you an indication of how we're thinking about it for next year, hopefully, that will suffice. I'm happy to talk a little bit more answer any further follow-up questions or maybe Priscilla, if you have something you'd like to add on that.

Priscilla Sims Brown

No, I think you said it very well.

Justin Crowley

Agreed. That is helpful. And then maybe just one last one on buybacks. You got active again this quarter. I know the stocks moved pretty nicely, which I'm sure you're all happy about. But you continue to also have really strong capital levels, generate solid earnings. So just kind of curious how you're thinking about that as a capital return strategy as we look out here.

Jason Darby

Sure. It's a component for sure of my shareholder return strategy. And obviously, we want to make sure that we're not only focused on capital building from an earnings perspective. So we have an obligation. But at the same time, we're investors in the stock to the extent that we always feel it's got more value to go.

I don't have a specific program that I'm following or signaling with regard to what the buyback activity is. But I think you can recognize we increased the availability of the dividend -- I'm sorry, of the repurchase authorization to $40 million before the beginning of the third quarter. We started utilizing that when the price receded a little bit in connection with the broader market moves.

We feel that there's value in the stock. And I think you can generally look at what we did this quarter as an indicator, although I wouldn't say it's going to be an absolute because I'm not following any specific program. I'll continue to buy the stock as long as I think there's value to be had. And right now, we believe there's a lot of value left to run the stock.

Operator

And we have reached the end of the question-and-answer session. Therefore, I'd like to turn the call back over to Priscilla Sims Brown for closing comments.

Priscilla Sims Brown

Thanks for those great questions, and thanks for your comments and notes on the quarter. Before we close, I just want to leave you with a couple of takeaways that I think you've heard loud and clear. Our strategy is working.

We think the strength of this quarter reflects the deliberate choices we've made to build a differentiated franchise, deploy our capital with discipline and invest in our people and our capabilities. And that's how we're delivering stronger performance for our shareholders while remaining true to our mission. What is particularly gratifying is that these results reflect the strategy we laid out 5 years ago and we refined 2 years ago, and we're doing what we said we would do. You can increasingly see that execution reflected in our results.

So I want to thank and congratulate our Board for its leadership and stewardship. I want to thank the entire team for their tremendous partnership and execution. This progress is a direct result of their commitment to the strategy and to our customers, communities and shareholders. We enter the next phase from a position of strength with significant opportunities still ahead of us. I look forward to providing more guidance on that next quarter. Thank you for joining us.

Operator

This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation. Enjoy the rest of your day.