Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc.

Description

Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Berkshire Bank that provides various banking products and services in the United States. The company provides various deposit accounts, including demand deposit, interest-bearing checking, regular savings, money market savings, time certificates of deposit, and retirement deposit accounts. It offers loans, such as commercial real estate, commercial and industrial, residential mortgage, and consumer loans. In addition, the company provides wealth management services comprising investment management, trust administration, tax return preparation, and financial planning; and investment products and brokerage services. Further, it offers commercial cash management, online banking and mobile banking, small business banking, and asset based lending services; and debit cards and other electronic fee producing payment services to transaction account customers. It serves its products to personal, commercial, non-profit, and municipal deposit customers. Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

About

CEO
Mr. Nitin J. Mhatre
Employees
1,310
Instrument type
Common Stock
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Banks - Regional
MIC code
XNYS
Address
60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109, United States
Phone
617 641 9206
Website
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Earnings

Date Estimate EPS Actual EPS Difference % Surprise
Oct 22, 2025
Jul 16, 2025
Apr 16, 2025
Jan 30, 2025 0.54 0.60 0.06 11.11%
Oct 24, 2024 0.55 0.58 0.03 5.45%

Earnings estimate

Current Quarter
(Mar 2025)
Next Quarter
(Jun 2025)
Current Year
(Dec 2025)
Next Year
(Dec 2026)
Number of analysts 4 4 5 5
Average estimate 0.54 0.58 2.47 3.51
Low estimate 0.52 0.56 2.35 2.68
High estimate 0.56 0.59 2.57 3.85
Last year EPS 0.49 0.55 2.22 2.47
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Growth estimates

Current qtr (Mar 2025)
7.480%
Next qtr. (Jun 2025)
1.510%
Current year (Dec 2025)
14.640%
Next year (Dec 2026)
46.170%
Next 5 years (per annum)
Past 5 years (per annum)

Analyst Ratings

Date Firm Action Rating Price Target
Jan 31, 2025
RBC Capital
Karl Shepard
Reiterates Sector Perform Maintains $31
Dec 24, 2024
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Christopher O'Connell
Maintains Market Perform ▲ Raises $32 → $34.5
Dec 17, 2024
RBC Capital
Jon Arfstrom
Maintains Sector Perform ▼ Lowers $32 → $31
Dec 17, 2024
Seaport Global
Laurie Havener Hunsicker
Upgrade Buy Announces $39
Dec 4, 2024
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Christopher O'Connell
Maintains Market Perform ▲ Raises $29 → $32
Jul 22, 2024
Janney Montgomery Scott
Jake Civiello
Downgrade Neutral Announces $28
Jan 30, 2024
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Christopher O'Connell
Maintains Market Perform ▲ Raises $24 → $25
Jan 29, 2024
Seaport Global
Laurie Havener Hunsicker
Upgrade Neutral
Jan 26, 2024
RBC Capital
Jon Arfstrom
Reiterates Sector Perform Maintains $26
Jan 10, 2024
Piper Sandler
Mark Fitzgibbon
Upgrade Neutral Announces $24
Oct 23, 2023
RBC Capital
Jon Arfstrom
Maintains Sector Perform ▼ Lowers $23 → $22
Sep 12, 2023
Seaport Global
David Bishop
Initiates Sell Announces $16
Apr 21, 2023
RBC Capital
Jon Arfstrom
Maintains Sector Perform ▼ Lowers $28 → $26
Apr 6, 2023
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Christopher O'Connell
Maintains Market Perform ▼ Lowers $32 → $27
Oct 14, 2022
Piper Sandler
Mark Fitzgibbon
Downgrade Underweight ▼ Lowers $31 → $29
Oct 10, 2022
Piper Sandler
Mark Fitzgibbon
Maintains Neutral ▲ Raises $29 → $31
Jul 21, 2022
Janney Montgomery Scott
Jake Civiello
Upgrade Buy
Apr 21, 2022
Compass Point
Laurie Havener
Downgrade Sell ▼ Lowers $29 → $23
Oct 22, 2021
RBC Capital
Steven Duong
Maintains Sector Perform ▲ Raises $30 → $32
Oct 5, 2021
RBC Capital
Steven Duong
Maintains Sector Perform ▲ Raises $29 → $30
Aug 31, 2021
Seaport Global
Initiates Buy
Aug 11, 2021
Piper Sandler
Downgrade Neutral
Aug 6, 2021
RBC Capital
Initiates Sector Perform
May 4, 2021
Piper Sandler
Mark Fitzgibbon
Upgrade Overweight ▲ Raises $25 → $27
Apr 30, 2021
Compass Point
Laurie Havener
Downgrade Neutral ▼ Lowers $28 → $23
Feb 5, 2021
Compass Point
Upgrade Buy
Jan 13, 2021
Piper Sandler
Downgrade Neutral
Sep 28, 2020
Piper Sandler
Maintains Overweight ▼ Lowers $13 → $12.5
Sep 9, 2020
Piper Sandler
Maintains Overweight ▼ Lowers $13.5 → $13
Jul 31, 2020
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Maintains Market Perform ▼ Lowers $16.5 → $13.5

Income statement

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Fiscal date 2023-12-31 2022-12-31 2021-12-31 2020-12-31 2019-12-31
Total reported revenue 411.83M 413.53M 381.47M 381.85M 447.91M
Cost of revenue
Gross profit
Operating expense
Research & development
Selling general and admin 171.68M 160.95M 157.10M 157.42M 175.76M
Other operating expenses
Operating income
Non operating interest income
Income
Expense
Other income expense
Pretax income 78.32M 113.82M 149.02M -533.03M 123.98M
Tax provision 8.72M 21.29M 30.36M -19.85M 22.46M
Net income 69.60M 92.53M 118.66M -533.02M 97.45M
Basic EPS 1.61 2.03 2.41 -10.60 1.98
Diluted EPS 1.60 2.02 2.39 -10.60 1.97
Basic average shares 43.29M 45.56M 49.24M 50.27M 49.26M
Diluted average shares 43.29M 45.56M 49.24M 50.27M 49.26M
EBITDA
Net income from continuing op. 69.60M 92.53M 118.66M -513.18M 101.52M
Minority interests
Preferred stock dividends

Balance sheet

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Fiscal date 2023-12-31 2022-12-31 2021-12-31 2020-12-31 2019-12-31
Total assets
Current assets
Cash 148.15M 145.34M 109.35M 91.22M 105.45M
Cash equivalents 1.06B 540.01M 1.52B 1.47B 474.38M
Cash and cash equivalents 1.20B 685.36M 1.63B 1.56B 579.83M
Other short term investments 1.02B 1.42B 1.88B 1.70B 1.31B
Accounts receivable 53.10M 46.87M 33.53M 46.92M 36.46M
Other receivables 33.56M 34.39M 30.61M 40.75M 23.79M
Inventory
Prepaid assets
Restricted cash
Assets held for sale
Hedging assets
Other current assets
Non current assets
Properties 47.35M 46.41M 52.18M 60.02M 75.26M
Land and improvements 12.53M 15.54M 15.79M 17.72M 17.82M
Machinery furniture equipment 64.29M 63.55M 62.42M 63.59M 64.04M
Construction in progress 327,000 1.15M 703,000 4.04M 1.58M
Leases
Accumulated depreciation -97.45M -95.00M -88.85M -86.53M -78.97M
Goodwill 31.76M 37.53M 45.64M 51.17M 1.18B
Investment properties
Financial assets
Intangible assets 31.76M 37.53M 45.64M 51.17M 72.07M
Investments and advances 1.58B 2.03B 2.54B 2.19B 1.72B
Other non current assets
Total liabilities
Current liabilities
Accounts payable 13.77M 1.61M 775,000 3.87M 11.63M
Accrued expenses
Short term debt 260.00M 40.00M 125.00M
Deferred revenue
Tax payable
Pensions
Other current liabilities
Non current liabilities
Long term debt 308.29M 188.55M 176.38M 605.91M 794.17M
Provision for risks and charges
Deferred liabilities
Derivative product liabilities 75.96M 97.03M 35.19M 65.76M 80.68M
Other non current liabilities
Shareholders equity
Common stock 528,000 528,000 528,000 528,000 517,000
Retained earnings -33.14M -71.43M -139.38M -233.34M 361.08M
Other shareholders equity -143.02M -181.05M -3.24M 30.87M 11.99M
Total shareholders equity 1.01B 954.06M 1.18B 1.19B 1.76B
Additional paid in capital 1.42B 1.42B 1.42B 1.43B 1.42B
Treasury stock 225.32M 209.57M 89.86M 31.28M 69.64M
Minority interest

Cash flow statement

2023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200720062005200420032002200120001999
Operating Activities
Net Income69.60M92.53M118.66M-513.18M101.52M109.22M49.12M58.67M49.52M33.74M41.14M33.19M17.35M13.86M-16.07M22.24M13.54M10.89M8.23M11.94M8.97M1.77M8.91M4.58M5.62M
Depreciation13.27M14.71M16.24M18.10M16.70M15.38M12.99M11.32M12.16M13.10M12.39M11.38M9.25M6.84M7.14M7.67M6.46M4.87M5.07M3.78M4.11M4.17M3.18M2.42M2.81M
Deferred Taxes-4.53M-5.17M905,000986,000-1.76M1.69M1.52M1.09M-431,000608,000-2.79M-319,000
Stock-Based Compensation7.50M7.34M4.17M4.73M4.81M4.76M5.10M4.62M4.69M3.84M2.96M2.26M1.45M1.60M1.41M1.64M
Other Non-Cash Items4.75M4.81M-4.83M5.52M-6.08M-25.16M17.51M-3.35M-5.98M-13.99M37.35M-48.70M-7.59M64,000-13,0001.32M-93,0007.89M10.54M2.93M3.21M20.79M8.46M9.43M605,000
Accounts Receivable-10.05M2.81M
Accounts Payable
Other Assets & Liabilities14.39M-12.08M18.28M-31.25M-23.60M30.60M13.84M3.31M4.46M-1.80M22.40M19.60M11.01M5.74M-20.83M-2.19M
Operating Cash Flow109.50M107.32M152.52M-516.08M93.35M134.80M98.56M74.57M64.84M34.90M116.24M17.74M31.47M23.58M-43.58M34.38M20.89M21.89M25.52M20.17M17.37M26.30M21.16M13.65M8.72M
Investing Activities
Capital Expenditures-1.82M-1.50M-1.61M-7.21M-10.57M-9.35M-11.26M-8.88M-5.08M-6.14M-13.10M-18.63M-7.27M-5.02M-3.53M-2.48M-5.57M-6.10M-4.13M-4.66M-1.47M-1.47M-2.34M-2.53M-3.74M
Net Intangibles
Net Acquisitions-352.81M110.77M374.61M-48.18M62.61M423.42M-111.33M179.31M-1.09M-8.05M-22.54M-26.64M-1.42M-4.70M
Purchase of Investments-61.46M-494.28M-1.03B-1.05B-155.16M-297.48M-575.85M-407.17M-347.91M-578.73M-446.79M-146.15M-214.63M-138.94M-193.85M-115.48M-60.15M-66.53M-69.37M-152.68M-356.74M-258.48M-94.44M-126.42M-52.40M
Sale of Investments508.88M751.20M625.26M596.92M442.19M264.09M408.80M596.91M235.03M280.03M142.64M219.07M140.55M143.88M94.21M65.43M105.14M252.47M237.87M136.20M239.69M172.09M85.40M106.73M56.32M
Investing Cash Flow432.13M261.31M-729.30M-451.17M427.09M-54.54M191.80M134.37M-61.30M117.93M-334.16M-94.75M15.67M-80,000-106.69M-71.09M9.30M-122.16M77.91M-106.67M-214.68M-30.08M-29.17M-150.86M-66.60M
Financing Activities
Long-Term Debt Issuance10.45B149.31M326.28M5.38B4.77B5.98B9.36B8.57B5.43B1.49B559.76M125.48M259.54M208.86M145.00M185.21M272.01M905.12M675.50M252.00M-121.13M152.00M147.74M40.00M
Long-Term Debt Payments-10.07B-135.20M-462.06M-582.65M-6.23B-4.39B-6.17B-9.37B-8.62B-5.44B-872.16M-465.97M-296.25M-305.90M-276.81M-120.32M-231.13M-324.46M-1.06B-599.51M-133.54M121.37M-127.16M-97.54M-13.66M
Other Financing Charges13.85M84.04M51.91M-97.61M-1.70M167,000102,0001.45M1.13M68,000-94,000-1.04M-73,000676,0001.26M279,000-728,000160,000
Financing Cash Flow339.08M-50.89M-503.42M-391.02M-941.65M339.66M-78.38M-25.48M-76.05M-32.22M587.10M82.33M-182.36M-54.45M-85.48M94.92M-50.64M-56.02M-161.56M73.37M114.41M-3.69M21.89M50.40M23.62M
Other Cash Details
End Cash Position1.20B685.36M1.63B1.56B579.83M183.19M248.76M113.08M103.56M71.75M75.54M98.24M75.78M44.14M32.61M44.80M41.14M30.99M31.09M17.90M17.44M60.66M42.12M43.61M24.64M
Income Tax Paid12.31M28.44M14.82M19.82M3.03M18.32M16.23M429,000746,000-3.73M8.87M-164,0003.45M1.97M6.04M
Interest Paid194.90M41.83M40.99M103.60M153.10M106.84M64.47M45.45M32.10M28.43M35.02M32.30M32.04M34.92M46.30M56.99M
Free Cash Flow155.34M109.24M83.18M220.43M100.96M212.91M66.84M89.04M78.95M47.37M114.31M9.76M32.18M35.67M10.08M39.44M17.86M18.93M15.57M14.96M13.62M18.07M17.55M-314,0003.72M

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BOSTON , Feb. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BHLB) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.18 per common share to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 20, 2025, payable on March 6, 2025. About Berkshire Hills Bancorp Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BHLB) is the parent company of Berkshire Bank, a relationship-driven, community-focused bank with $12.3 billion in assets and 83 financial centers in New England and New York.
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Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:BHLB ) Q4 2024 Results Conference Call January 30, 2025 9:00 AM ET Company Participants Kevin Conn - Investor Relations Nitin Mhatre - Chief Executive Officer Sean Gray - Chief Operating Officer Brett Brbovic - Chief Financial Officer Greg Lindenmuth - Chief Risk Officer Conference Call Participants David Bishop - Hovde Group Billy Young - RBC Chris O'Connell - KBW Laurie Hunsicker - Seaport Research Partners Mark Fitzgibbon - Piper Sandler Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Berkshire Hills Bancorp Fourth Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all lines are in listen-only mode.
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