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M&T Bank Corp. earned net income of $186 million in the third quarter, or $1.56 per share, under generally accepted accounting principles, despite taking a hit on the value of the bank's mortgage servicing rights.
Earnings per share were up 22% from the same quarter last year, the company reported, and the company's share price rose to a new 52-week high on the news.
The third-quarter net income reflected an annualized rate of return on average assets of 1.42%, the bank said. The return on average common equity was 13.02%.
Those strong results came despite having to add reserve funds to reflect the impairment of mortgage servicing rights, the bank said. That was a reversal from last year, when higher interest rates in the third quarter allowed the bank to recapture $13 million in valuation allowance against its servicing portfolio.
The bank's mortgage servicing rights are valued at $131 million as of Sept. 30, 2004. "As the result of falling interest rates ...