Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Feb 23, 2011
Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. (PNFP, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2010-12-31.

Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. has a market cap of $516.3 million; its shares were traded at around $15.34 with and P/S ratio of 2.2. Hedge Fund Gurus that owns PNFP: Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.

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The Nashville MSA banking market is very competitive, with 60 financial institutions with over $37.2 billion in deposits in the market as of June 30, 2010, up from approximately $34.6 billion at June 30, 2009 according to FDIC data. As of June 30, 2010, approximately 57.6% of this deposit base was controlled by six large, multi-state banks headquartered outside of Nashville, consisting of the following: Regions Financial (headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama), Bank of America (headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina), First Horizon (headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee), US Bancorp (headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota), SunTrust (headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia), and Fifth Third (headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio). According to FDIC deposit information, the collective market share of deposits in the Nashville MSA of Regions Financial (including the acquired Union Planters National Bank and AmSouth Bank), Bank of America, US Bancorp (including the acquired First Union) and SunTrust (including the acquired National Bank of Commerce) declined from approximately 72.4% to 57.6% between June 30, 2000 and June 30, 2010. Pinnacle, on the other hand, after only ten years of operations, now holds the No. 4 market share position in the Nashville MSA with 9.6% of the market, immediately behind the top three out-of-state banks.

The Knoxville MSA banking market is also very competitive, with 44 financial institutions with over $12.6 billion in deposits in the market as of June 30, 2010. According to FDIC data, bank and thrift deposits in the Knoxville MSA grew from approximately $7.2 billion at June 30, 2000 to more than $12.6 billion at June 30, 2010. As of June 30, 2010, approximately 60.2% of this deposit base was controlled by four large, multi-state banks headquartered outside of Knoxville, consisting of the following: First Horizon (headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee), Regions Financial (headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama), SunTrust (headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia) and Branch Banking and Trust (BB&T) (headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina). According to FDIC deposit information, the collective market share of deposits in the Knoxville MSA of First Horizon, Regions Financial (including the acquired Union Planters National Bank and AmSouth Bank), BB&T (including the acquired BankFirst) and SunTrust (including the acquired National Bank of Commerce) declined from 63.6% to 60.2% between June 30, 2000 and June 30, 2010. At June 30, 2007, when Pinnacle Financial first opened a location in Knoxville in 2007, the collective market share of deposits in the Knoxville MSA for the same four competitors was 63.4%. Substantially all of the decline in market share for the top four competitors has occurred since Pinnacle Financial established a presence in the Knoxville MSA.

Pinnacle National s lending activities are subject to a variety of lending limits imposed by federal law. Differing limits apply based on the type of loan or the nature of the borrower, including the borrower s relationship to Pinnacle National. In general, however, at December 31, 2010, we were able to loan any one borrower a maximum amount equal to approximately $73.1 million plus an additional $48.7 million, or a total of approximately $121.8 million, for loans that meet certain additional federal collateral guidelines. These legal limits will increase or decrease as our bank subsidiary s capital increases or decreases as a result of its earnings or losses, the injection of additional capital or for other reasons. In addition to these regulatory limits, Pinnacle National currently imposes upon itself an internal lending limit of $15 million for relationships seeking current credit approval, which is significantly less than the prescribed legal lending limit. Prior to October 2009, our internal lending limit was $22 million. At that time, we maintained relationships which had aggregate exposure of greater than $15 million. These relationships have been grand-fathered under the previous guidelines and are not subject to our $15 million limitation. We currently have 19 relationships greater than our current in-house limit of $15 million. Our loan policy requires that the executive committee of the board of directors determine whether to approve any increases in exposure for any relationships that exceed this internal limit.

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