Flushing Financial Corp (FFIC) is a community bank holding company with consolidated total assets of $8.69B at December 31, 2025. Under a liquidation lens, the recovery posture is deeply negative, consistent with the MFFAIS CLV of approximately -$379M. The asset base is dominated by loans held for investment ($6.61B net, $6.65B gross) and AFS securities ($1.39B), both of which require haircuts under forced liquidation. Applying a conservative 90-95% recovery on net loans (given an ACL of $42.8M against gross loans of $6.65B — coverage ratio of only 0.64% — and non-accrual loans of $43.5M that exceed the ACL), along with roughly 95-97% on AFS securities (which carried only $3.3M of unrealized losses at year-end), the asset-side recoveries still fall materially short of the $7.99B liability stack. Deposits of $7.31B are the dominant liability at face value, with FHLB and other borrowings of $485M, subordinated debt of $189M, and junior subordinated debentures (fair value option) of $52M. No goodwill remains on the consolidated balance sheet following a $17.6M impairment charge recognized in 2025, eliminating that zero-recovery line. Core deposit intangibles of $0.8M gross remain but are immaterial. The $226.9M BOLI asset receives a partial haircut in liquidation as cash surrender value is not immediately accessible in all scenarios; the filing separately discloses CSV of $98M, suggesting significant net BOLI value exists but is not fully liquid. Operating lease commitments total $63.7M undiscounted ($53.8M present value), which do not extinguish on wind-up and add to the effective liability burden. AOCI swung from +$7.1M at year-end 2024 to -$0.5M at year-end 2025, a deterioration of approximately $7.6M net of tax, driven by OCI losses during 2025. Retained earnings declined from $492M to $480M, reflecting the net of $18.9M net income and $30.3M cash dividends. Stockholders' equity at book was $708M, but the liquidation discount embedded in bank balance sheets — particularly the unrecoverable going-concern premium in deposit franchise value, intangible servicing value, and the haircut on performing loan portfolios — produces a recovery substantially below book. The filing discloses a pending merger agreement with OceanFirst Financial Corp. signed December 29, 2025; this is a strategic transaction, not a liquidation, but the merger agreement is now a material contingency that would supersede any hypothetical wind-up scenario. The ACL coverage of non-accrual loans declined to 93.3% from 117.8% at the prior period, signaling the loan book has slightly more exposed tail risk. Goodwill impairment of $17.6M in 2025 was not separately tagged in XBRL at the consolidated level but appears in the tax reconciliation as a non-deductible item; the holding company condensed balance sheet confirms goodwill went to zero between 2024 ($2.2M) and 2025 ($0). Brokered deposits of $1.13B represent a flighty, price-sensitive funding source that would accelerate run-off pressure in a stress scenario.
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