Piper Jaffray Cuts Price Target on Oceanfirst Financial (OCFC) as Low Margins Drive 1Q Miss

Go back to Piper Jaffray Cuts Price Target on Oceanfirst Financial (OCFC) as Low Margins Drive 1Q Miss

OceanFirst Financial Corp. Announces First Quarter Financial Results

April 21, 2016 5:00 PM EDT

TOMS RIVER, N.J., April 21, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OceanFirst Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: OCFC), (the "Company"), the holding company for OceanFirst Bank (the "Bank"), today announced that diluted earnings per share was $0.25 for the quarter ended March 31, 2016, as compared to $0.32 for the corresponding prior year quarter.  

The results of operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 included non-recurring merger related expenses which decreased net income, net of tax benefit, by $1.2 million.  Excluding this item, core earnings for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 were $5.4 million, or $0.32 per diluted... More