Good day, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the BankFinancial Corporation Q4 and 2022 year-end earnings conference call. At this time, all participants in a listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised, today's conference call is being recorded. I would like to turn the call over now to Mr. Gaisor, CEO. Please go ahead. Good morning and welcome to the BankFinancial fourth quarter 2022 investor conference call. Sorry for the delay. At this time we would like to have our forward-looking statement read. The remarks made at this conference may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 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We do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement in the future. Now I'll turn the call over to Chairman and CEO, Mr. F. Morgan Gaisor. Thank you. Our earnings release was completed last week Friday. The 10 K will be filed on schedule and we are now ready for questions. Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. One moment while we compile the Q&A roster. Moderator, we're not getting a question. Participant, your line is open. Please unmute your line. Oh, hey, good morning. Good morning. This is Manuel Alva with Davidson. I guess my first question is about loan growth for next year. You had a really strong end of the year. Multifamily was quite strong. Equipment finance kind of as expected. What are your kind of expectations for next year? You talked about 10% last quarter. Any extra color there would be great. Well, thank you for the question. We actually had a good fourth quarter even though the fundings were delayed kind of in the last part of the quarter as the gap between the year-end numbers and the average outstanding for the fourth quarter showed. We had a good growth for the entire year over year, so we were pleased with that. As far as 2023 is concerned, we're operating in somewhat of an unusual environment in an inverted yield curve. Federal Reserve policy obviously is gonna dictate a lot. We've noticed that the middle part of the curve, the three to five-year part of the curve, has actually been dropping the last several weeks, which makes the planning even a little more interesting. Generally speaking, for 2023, our focus is gonna be between 5%-10% loan growth. You know, we'd like to see the higher end of the range at the 10% level. The strength of that will come again primarily through equipment finance, and then C&I in our commercial finance areas. Those are the areas that we're gonna spend the most time and focus on. Given relative returns from various asset classes, the equipment finance side and the commercial finance side make the most sense. Most of the marketing attention, expansion attention will be in the equip finance side and the commercial finance side. With multifamily and commercial real estate, you know, we're $5 million-$10 million growth. Equipment finance was somewhere between $30 million-$50 million for the year. C&I was $30 on the low side to $75 million on the high side. That gets you a range of up to 10% at the end of the year. In terms of commercial finance, the strongest part of the portfolio will be the healthcare portfolio. We had a very good pipeline of new opportunities going into 2023, some of which have already started to fund. We saw greater utilization in the healthcare portfolio, particularly in fourth quarter, continuing on now into the first quarter. That has two dimensions. Our customers are using their excess liquidity, so you're seeing the commercial demand deposits decline, which is something that we thought would happen, you know, a year ago when it started, and it's continuing. That also, you know, means that their line utilization will improve. That's where we see the bulk of the growth in C&I based on what we have right now. We also see opportunities in commercial finance, government finance, lessor finance, and even in the Chicago community finance area, that'll make up the bulk. Healthcare will probably be about half of the growth from what we see right now. The other categories will be the other half, based on their own individual category opportunities. Is that kind of half the growth for the year or half the commercial finance? I'm just clarifying. Say that question again, please. Is that half of the growth for the year in healthcare, or is that half the growth in commercial finance alone? Half the growth in commercial finance. Okay. Roughly about $30 million-$35 million to $40 million. $30 million-$40 million would be healthcare, and the rest of it would be in the other commercial finance categories. Got it. 3%-4% of the total is healthcare, half of it within commercial finance. Okay. Got it. Your the thought process on multifamily or CRE being less of a focus just kind of rate driven? Are you already seeing slower demand there? You did have a great end of the quarter in multifamily. Yep. You know, a couple things. One is we're reallocating cash flows. Right now from a profitability perspective and an asset liability perspective, continuing to maintain a bit shorter duration, and also picking up some improvement in yields, seems important to continue the improvement of profitability. What we're really looking at doing is allocating cash flows for the year. Again, the equipment finance side and the commercial finance side give us the most flexibility from an asset liability perspective. Just for example, in 2023, we will have over $600 million in assets repricing, the bulk of, you know, the greater portion of it in the second half. What we're really doing is reallocating assets and cash flows. For example, the multifamily portfolio is expected to have significantly reduced prepayment rates, in part because of market conditions and in part because of where rates are right now. We'll see less cash flow coming off that portfolio to reinvest. Equipment finance will probably have close to $200 million coming off of the portfolio. We expect we'll be able to reinvest that back into equipment finance, take some of the excess cash flows we might have from securities or multifamily, put it into equipment finance. In commercial finance, as we mentioned last quarter, we'll have about $60 million coming off of the securities portfolio this year, at an average of 2.66%. Our goal is to put that into commercial finance at an average of about 9.66%. Pretty strong contribution and growth there, and that's why it's our priority. That's. With that kind of repricing and improved asset yields, performance, what are your kind of thoughts on the NIM going forward? At the same time, you're having a little bit increase in deposit costs. Just kind of what are your thoughts on the NIM outlook? Well, we would expect net interest margin to stay relatively stable in the first half. You know, I want to caution all these, you know, observations with the uncertainties of deposit repricing. So far, we're able to maintain a good funding base, with the pricing we have so far. But we have to watch what market reactions are as more customers seek higher yields. We'll also seek communications from the Federal Reserve on their expectations for rates during the year. That does have, you know, that does drive some of our deposit customer perceptions on what they should be seeking for rates. Our big wild card this year is going to be deposit interest expense. In the first half, we expect net interest margin to stay relatively stable. In the second half, when we have more cash flows repricing, we have an opportunity to expand the net interest margin, especially as we get better deployment, in higher yields in equipment finance and especially in commercial finance. The securities reprice in the second half of the year. If we time the deployment of those cash flows into commercial finance at that time, then we see a strong opportunity for net interest margin expansion in the second half. I appreciate that. Switching over to expenses. It did a little better this quarter, than I would have thought. You had the branch savings plan for, I believe, next year. What's kind of a good expense run rate in 2023? We're comfortable with the expense. You know, if you look at where we're at now, we'd say expenses generally will run between just under $40 million, say $39.5 to just over. You know, framed right around $40 million. To the extent we see savings from the branch operations, we want to plow that back into marketing, especially for the commercial finance and some commercial deposit assets and liabilities. The branches are now closed, the two branches at issue. We had a contract on the sale of one of the branches. It fell through just a couple weeks ago. There's still some interest in it, so we have reopened up the process, and we are actually starting to negotiate an acquisition of the second branch, the larger facility. We're told that that buyer has a 90-120-day process that they're working through. It's conceivable that we could have both buildings sold and closed by the end of second quarter. The estimated cost saves from both those branches are roughly $800,000. We would see an improvement in expenses of about $400,000 for the second half. We do think there's gonna be some disposition costs on that based on where the contracts settle in on. I don't think it'll be material to the financial statements, but it could cost us a couple cents a share, you know, at whatever period we record this. Most likely here in the first quarter since that's when we've closed the facilities. We could see a little bit of impact on first quarter. Once the facilities are actually sold and closed is the bulk of the benefit after that. One of the facilities, for example, has an annual tax bill of approaching $300,000. The sooner it's gone, the better we are. That's the key to achieving the cost saves is the disposition of the facilities. Is that increased marketing spend, kind of dependent on where the economy is? Is that an area where it could shift if the second half of the year is a little bit weaker? Like Kind of how are you thinking about the back half of the year and possible places you can shift if the environment changes? Well, I would say that the commercial finance side is something that we need to allocate marketing expenses to, and that needs to be a relatively consistent presence. I would say once we commit to a plan in that, we're gonna see it through, and see how effective the marketing is. The product capabilities we have in commercial finance and government finance, even in lessor finance, are very strong within the market, in some ways, unique. We need to make sure the word gets out. That is a fundamental level of expense that we're not likely to change very much. On the deposit side, to your point, if we are well-funded, you know, for our objectives, and especially if our commercial marketing, deposit marketing is effective, that does two things. One, it might bring down the overall marginal cost of funds a bit. Two, we can meter the expenditures a little bit based on how the marketing is effective. Right now, you know, I would say the marketing is a fluid number. We know we're gonna spend more on it. It's hard to predict it until we measure the effectiveness of what we're gonna try to do. Some of what we're gonna try to do is relatively new to us. Focusing on commercial deposit marketing has been something that's done within the loan, the credit areas. Now we're gonna make that a central focus within the organization. branch level treasury services, are both gonna contribute to those business plans and see if we can improve our total percentage of commercial to total deposits as best we can. It's hard to predict those numbers, but once we get into it, we'll have a better sense of what works and doesn't work. Got it. Got it. I guess my last question before I send it back into the queue is just updated thoughts on your buyback. I know that you're a little bit concerned about the tax this year, but you did get some shares bought here in the fourth quarter. Just kind of thoughts on that going forward. You know, we put the board approved an increase to the share repurchase plan last week. I would say that given that the lower level of volume we've seen in the fourth quarter, we were able to do some volume. I would say that it'll probably slow down a little bit. I would probably use $50,000 a quarter as a baseline. It could be higher. I doubt it would be much lower. At that point, you'd end up the year, you know, roughly around 12,500,000 shares, ±. I would use a little bit lower baseline than we have historically. Hopefully, we trade up a little bit in share price, and it's a little bit less accretive. Still, I think $50,000 a quarter is a good baseline. If it's better, then it's better, but I think that's a reasonable place to start a minimum estimate. Thank you. I'll hop back into the queue. Thank you. One moment while we prepare for the next question. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one one on your telephone. Next question is coming from Brian Martin of Janney. Your line is open. Please go ahead. Hey, good morning, guys. Morning. Hey, Morgan, can you maybe just talk a little bit about or, you know, I guess, the thought on just how you'd fund the loan growth this year, just kind of the size of the balance sheet. I know that the cash balance is obviously down pretty substantially, you also talked about, you know, $600 million, it sounds like it's repricing over the next 12 months. Just, you know, kind of in connection with, you know, maybe if you look at the 10% loan growth, you're talking about $120 million at the higher end. Just trying to understand how you're thinking about funding it and just the balance sheet along with, you know, some of the deposit contraction you saw this quarter. Yep. I think the simplest thing is if you look at it, we'll take $60 million out of the securities portfolio to fund the loan growth. We'll need $60 million of new funding, plus or minus. The new funding, probably in the shorter run, would be done through retail CDs and money markets, but especially retail CDs. The customers that we're working with seem to wanna go in that direction right now. That seems to be working for us. As the year goes on, as I said earlier, we're gonna try and focus some attention on commercial deposit marketing, whether it's new commercial deposit DDAs from new customers, commercial MMDA, and, you know, some commercial CDs. We don't have that much of it, commercial would be the next component. Let's assume, for example, that we're able to take that $60 million of new funding requirement and, you know, do half in commercial and half in retail. That would be a good result for us because it'll come in at a lower cost of funds than the retail side would. It would also mean we're growing our core banking franchise and our core commercial finance, core commercial deposit franchise in a meaningful way. Gotcha. Okay. As far as the contraction, a little bit of contraction in deposits, and just kind of how you see that playing out with kind of managing the loan to deposit ratio, what, you know, what do you see? Do you see more contraction potentially on the, you know, given where rates are in some of the deposit mix, or is that, do you feel like it's stabilizing here. Well, you know, of course, that's the big question. I would expect to see some more contraction if, just based on the fact that the economy has seen some inflationary components that have drained liquidity, especially on the retail side. You see customers looking for higher yields. We've been able to play pretty good defense, but, you know, there's not 100% retention there. We do expect to see some further declines in commercial deposits. As I said earlier, customers are gonna use their liquidity before they start borrowing against their lines. Obviously, there are certain minimum liquidity requirements they have to maintain. Again, their choice is simple. If they have cash available, they're gonna use it first, and then they'll draw next. As that cash diminishes just through operating expenses, you'll see greater impact on line utilization. First, the cash is gonna run off. It's also the case in 2022, we had one large depositor that did a capital markets transaction at the end of 2021, dropped $25 million of DDA on us and then consumed about 20 of it during the course of the year. That we do not expect to repeat. I would say a slowdown in commercial deposits is more likely given that large depositor delta. But still, the retail side, I would say some runoff is still possible, especially since, you know, we'll see just a little bit greater inflation coming through the economy, real estate taxes that our customers have to pay. You know, the timing of that is different than it used to be here on the Chicago market. We're, we're bracing for a little bit of additional runoff during the course of 2023. That's why we're planning ahead with some replacement in retail CDs, and we're gonna try to focus as much as we can on commercial deposit growth, and build a stable, a growing franchise there. Gotcha. No, that's helpful. Not, maybe not much change net to the, you know, loan to deposit ratio. I think it's around 90% today or in that area. Is that how you're? Yep. I think that's about right. You know, if we feel that we need to bring that ratio down a little bit, then we obviously have the cash flows to do that. Right. I think if we can maintain it in that 90-92 range, get the mix that we want on both the loan side and the deposit side, it speaks to a stable environment for the first half of the year and an expanding environment in the second half of the year. Gotcha. Just, you said earlier, maybe just your comments about the bulk of the growth sounds like it's both, you know, kind of the equipment finance and the commercial finance. Just the yields you're seeing in those buckets today, can you just remind us? I think you said that it was not, one was over 9.5%, maybe that was the commercial. On the equipment finance side, just kind of what you expect to be, just trying to understand the pickup you're thinking about getting here. Well, you know, again, it gets a little variable and somewhat volatile. Right off the bat in equipment finance, if you think about a moderate duration of around three to five years, say five years as an average, then the swap rates there can go anywhere between 3.5 to four. Say 3.75 is a reasonable number. Then we're looking at around 250-300, depending on the asset class, whether it's corporate other, middle market or small ticket. High 6s, you know, seem reasonable there. You know, six is kind of a four for us right now, given where we think funding costs could go and profitability targets. The swap rate plus, you know, 250 is a reasonable proxy. It might go a little higher depending on the mix, but we're trying not to lock ourselves into relatively low yielding assets, at this moment, given the uncertainty of, where things might go. Okay. On the, on the commercial finance side, I think the. Yeah, there you're looking at, you know, anywhere between prime plus a half on the low side, which gets you know, if there's a modest bump here in the Fed funds rate and the prime rate here in the first quarter, that's eight and a quarter on the low side. Then you can see prime plus two on the high side. If you again weighted average that, depending on the mix in the portfolio, you can get yourself in the mid-nines, which is kind of where we're trying to target it. Got you. Okay. Then, just on the, you know, I guess just jumping, you said, you know, the pipelines today in general are, you know, I guess it sounds like the, you know, you kind of outlined where you're targeting your growth, but just the pipelines in general support, you know, I guess, kind of the outlook that you're kind of talking about here today. That seems fair? Yeah. I think the pipelines, you know, the pipelines in healthcare are the strongest. There's quite a bit of activity out there now, plus we have the opportunity for greater line utilization, right? Let's assume we're trying to grow that portfolio by $40 million. You know, $20 million of it is quite foreseeable based on greater line utilization. We think we probably will do better than that with growth and commitments. The next area to focus on is commercial finance and government finance. Those pipelines are relatively thin right now. That's where the marketing's gotta come from. Lessor finance, there's some opportunities there. That one's the hardest to predict growth because it tends to have line utilization during the quarter. Period end, they usually discount the transactions from the lines, and you don't see much quarter-over-quarter growth in that portfolio. Community finance, the business finance side, we've got some new product development that's just rolling out right now, that's intended for our small business customers, who are also seeing some liquidity consumption. They'll probably need some credit support during the course of the year. No more PPP, no more ERTC, no more EIDL, so we'll see some modest growth there. Healthcare, you know, we feel the strongest about. The others are really gonna be a function of marketing and growth. That's why we've kind of underweighted those, so we can prove out the efficacy of the marketing. Gotcha. Okay. Just maybe one on the payments and the payoffs this quarter. You know, I guess you've kind of talked about maybe the payoffs coming down a bit, or at least in one area there was one you mentioned. Just in general, kind of should we expect, or I guess, are you expecting the payoffs in 2023 to be a bit lower than what they were in 2022? Just trying to gauge, you know, kind of the trend. I mean, the trend the last two quarters has been definitely lower. Just trying to understand if that's sort of a trend you expect to continue. It sounds like it is. Well, certainly in the real estate portfolio, we would expect lower prepays compared to 2022. That's in two dimensions. One, the rate environment right now doesn't really lend itself to a significant amount of refinances from our portfolio. Two, the multifamily market's in a bit of transition with higher debt service requirements on new purchases, maybe somewhat higher cap rates, maybe somewhat lower NOIs. We're seeing, you know, real estate taxes in almost all markets take a bite out of NOIs compared to the last couple of years. Those building valuations and the relevant, trading values might alter a bit during 2023. I would say the fourth quarter payoff rates were probably a reasonable proxy for what's gonna happen in 2023, absent a material change in the rate environment. We do see some purchase opportunities in the market, some of them driven by 1031 exchanges. That's a good credit environment for us. Some people are just taking profits and deferring the taxes, and getting themselves into the best asset they can. That will drive some prepayment activity. We would expect real estate prepayments to be considerably more muted than they were in 2022. It's also the case that the customers that paid off portfolios, for example, in third quarter, the one customer that sold their entire portfolio and paid us off completely and several other lenders, there's not those concentrations in the portfolio at this time where we'd see a massive pay down like that. one, fewer concentrations, and two, slower market activity equals lower prepayment rates in 2023. Equipment finance is relatively stable, you know, principally, amortization. From time to time, we do see some early terminations. In our case, that's probably favorable. It gives us more cash to redeploy at a higher yield in almost all cases in that environment. Commercial finance isn't so much a question of prepayments as it is just volatility in line usage. It's not unusual for us to see a draw of $5 million, $7 million, $8 million, $10 million in a week and a pay down two weeks later of the same amount or a little more. For that matter, it's line utilization week by week, month by month. Hard to predict in the extreme, but with greater commitments out there and overall lower liquidity among those borrowers, we still expect to see somewhat higher utilization. Okay. Is utilization back to kind of a normal level, or is it still well below where it was running kind of pre-pandemic? It's, it's not quite where it was before. It's probably retraced about 50%. That's why we think there's some runway ahead of us in a more normalized liquidity environment. Also, even though in the healthcare space, many of our customers are enjoying somewhat higher reimbursement rates at the state level, their expenses are going up too, especially in states that have organized labor as part of their workforce. The margins will remain relatively stable, but in an intra-period basis, their expenses are going up, which means their draws are going up. We will then therefore see somewhat higher utilization of those credits almost no matter what. Yeah, that's what we're saying. If it retraced all the way back to shall we say, the 2019 level, we would pick up at least another $40 million of utilization. Right now, we're expecting $20 million in our official business plan. Gotcha. Okay. That call is helpful. Maybe just last one or two for me. Morgan, the margin, I think we talked about in the past, the margin maybe peaking in the upper threes to 3.70%, 3.80% type of level. Has anything changed in your outlook there? I know maybe it's, you know, back half event. Just trying to understand when the margin peaks and if there's any real difference in your outlook on that level today versus, you know, a quarter ago. No, I'd actually think that, as I said earlier, we have an opportunity to expand the margin in the second half of the year. It will depend on the mix, and it will particularly depend on us being successful in commercial finance growth. If we are successful, I wouldn't necessarily call a peak to net interest margin. Obviously too, the part of that is deposit interest expense. If things remain relatively stable, you know, we're able to maintain the funding base at the levels we're talking about, then again, I see some opportunity for margin expansion. If we're able to bring in commercial deposits and reduce the overall marginal cost of funds, there's yet another opportunity to expand margins. You know, I would say that, you know, the higher end of the range for the year would be in the upper 3s. Seems a reasonable place for us to be. If we are successful in what we're trying to do in the second half on the commercial finance side and the commercial deposit side, that isn't necessarily the peak. Like we have to see what happens with the core funding costs during the first half of the year, what the Fed's communications are as far as rates are concerned. If all of a sudden there's a pivot during the latter part of the year, then it might take some pressure off of funding costs. At the same time, we'll be able to maintain or even expand margins because we're gonna be repositioning cash flows. Gotcha. Okay. Last two, Morgan, just the, with the growth you're outlining or at least, you know, kind of anticipating, you know, by buckets, can you just talk about, you know, that reserve, that reserve level and just how you're thinking about it in the context of CECL? Then, I know you've talked in the past about kind of the levels of profitability you're targeting. Just thinking about, you know, I think in the past, it's kind of in the low 30s or mid-30s, it's in kind of a 1% ROA. Just kind of the reserve with regard to CECL and the profitability outlook would be great. Thank you. Okay. Well, first on reserves, yeah, CECL is upon us. We're in the final stages of model analysis and validation. We do expect that, you know, consistent with the impact of CECL, the overall reserve ratio is going to go up. Obviously, as we put in somewhat higher risk credits in the commercial finance area, middle market, equipment finance, small-ticket equip finance, those are higher reserve ratio credits. We would expect there to be some additional growth in reserves, both because of the day one impact of CECL and as we pivot the portfolio further to equipment and commercial finance, you'll see some higher provisioning. Probably better able to give you more specifics on our next call. Just right off the bat, middle market, small ticket portfolios will have a reserve ratio greater than 1%. The commercial finance portfolios will have a reserve ratio greater than 1%. On a weighted average basis, both of those credits are gonna require higher reserves and therefore bring up the average reserve ratio. On profitability, you know, given the timing of cash flows this year, we expect, you know, the mid to high 20s for the first half, but we do see ourselves hopefully being able to push into the low to mid 30s in the second half. you know, the bank at that point would do somewhere between 95 basis points, 90-95 on the low end and 105, 110, maybe even pushing 115 right at the end of the year on the high end. Again, you know, right within that 1% range, which is what we've been trying to achieve. Looks like we're getting pretty close. The key is to just keep it stable in the first half and then work to expand it in the second half. Perfect. Thank you for taking all the questions. I appreciate it. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. If you have a question, please press star one one on your telephone. One moment. Next question comes from Henry Walzak of HCW. Your line is open. Please go ahead. Good morning, Morgan. Good quarter there. I was just wondering if, since our dividend coverage ratio has improved drastically since earnings have gone up, would you consider an increase in the dividend or a special dividend? It would really help us old-timers. Thank you. Well, let me say that, both as a significant shareholder and as an old-timer, I generally personally am in favor of a higher dividend. Right now, when you look at our comparative dividend yields, they're very competitive in the market. We also wanna see what happens with interest rates overall. If they're actually going to be coming down during the course of the year, the dividend yield looks even better. I would rule nothing out right now. The company is well capitalized at both the bank level and at the holding company level. To your point, we appreciate the recognition of the better dividend coverage. I would expect, at least for the first quarter or two, while we get a handle on Federal Reserve policy, and we make sure that we're able to put a floor under net interest margin and earnings, the dividend policy will remain about the same. I would also say that we're gonna take another look at that in April and another look at that in July, and would rule nothing out right now. Dividends have been a key component of shareholder return these last several years. It's an important component of it. If that is a path to better total shareholder return, I would not necessarily rule anything out right now. Thank you, Morgan. That was helpful. Just one more quick comment. I guess one of your competitors did a major deal in the Chicago area neighborhood. Do you have a comment on the merger or acquisition field in the Chicago area? Thank you. you know, that would be a great conversation to have over a longer period of time. but to address our particular plans, I would say this. first, right now, I think executing our business plan on a organic basis has proven to have good results. if you look at the improvements in originations, even starting in 2021, continuing on to 2022, we have an opportunity to further improve results here in 2023. Towards that, we want to stay as focused as we can. Having said that, growth can be a good thing, if it contributes a funding base that's helpful to us, if it contributes higher operating leverage, and if it improves the capital base to the point where we may meet the Russell 2000 threshold for inclusion later this year. I would not really wanna comment on the broader aspects of Chicago. People have their own perspectives. I do think that, you know, we may see an opportunity to do something later in the year if it would help us, but it's certainly not our focus. It would almost be something that somebody offered us and we thought it made sense, not something that we're gonna go out and seek out to do. It does appear that the market will respect higher earnings and more stable earnings. We think that the pivot to more commercial base, helps earnings strength and therefore the multiple on earnings, going forward. Again, that's our focus. Thank you, Morgan. Keep up the good earnings growth rate perspective. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you have a question, please press star one one. There are no more questions in the queue. I would like to turn the call back over to management for closing remarks. Thank you. Well, we appreciate all the very good questions and continued interest. We look forward to 2023 building on the 2022 results. We'll do our very best to improve our stability and improve our results for shareholders. Enjoy the rest of the winter, if you can, and we'll talk to you in the spring. This concludes today's conference call. 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