New Peoples Bankshares (NWPP) is a Virginia-based community bank holding company with total assets of $939.6 million as of March 31, 2026, up from $909.7 million at December 31, 2025. Under a liquidation lens, the recovery posture is constrained by the standard bank balance-sheet asymmetry: the dominant asset is the loan portfolio, which carries meaningful haircut risk in forced liquidation, while deposit liabilities must be settled at face value. Net loans stood at $715.2 million (carrying value) against a gross loan balance of $723.3 million, with an allowance for credit losses of $8.1 million (1.12% of total loans). Applying a conservative 85-90% recovery rate to net loans in a hypothetical wind-down would generate approximately $608-$644 million in recovered value from that line alone. Investment securities of approximately $96.9 million (all classified available-for-sale) carry an embedded unrealized loss position; the filing discloses an AOCI unrealized loss on securities, net of tax, that contributed a $639,000 drag to equity in Q1 2026, suggesting the portfolio cannot be liquidated at par. Cash and interest-bearing deposits with banks were approximately $93 million at period-end (cash equivalents increased $15.7 million in Q1 to approximately $77 million; interest-bearing deposits with banks at $76.2 million), which recover at or near par. Total deposits were $827.7 million — the dominant liability — with time deposits of $289.9 million (carrying value) and non-maturity deposits comprising the balance. Borrowed funds (FHLB advances and trust preferred securities) totaled $19.0 million, unchanged from year-end 2025. The trust preferred securities component ($11.986 million) is subordinated debt that does not extinguish on wind-up and would rank senior to equity but junior to deposits. Operating lease obligations total $2.9 million (present value) with a weighted-average remaining term of 6.07 years at a 3.35% discount rate, representing a non-extinguishable commitment in liquidation. Book value per share was $3.53 as of March 31, 2026 vs. $3.52 at December 31, 2025. Total shareholders' equity was $83.1 million. The MFFAIS CLV/LLV/OLV is reported at $74.2 million, below reported book equity of $83.1 million, reflecting the liquidation haircuts applied to the loan portfolio and securities portfolio against face-value liabilities. The primary drivers of recovery compression versus book are: (1) loan portfolio haircut on $715 million of net loans, (2) unrealized loss in the AFS securities portfolio reducing realizable value, and (3) operating lease commitments that survive wind-up. Asset quality improved modestly QoQ: nonperforming assets fell to $3.3 million (0.35% of assets) from $3.8 million (0.42%) at year-end, and nonaccrual loans declined to $3.1 million from $3.6 million. Net charge-offs annualized at 0.14% in Q1 2026, up from 0.05% in Q4 2025, driven by charge-off of specific reserves on two relationships. The filing discusses loan credit quality, FHLB borrowing capacity ($252 million available on a $273 million line), and trust preferred securities in MD&A but the TAG_CONTEXT contains no XBRL tags — accordingly, all balance-sheet line items and metrics referenced here derive solely from the filing narrative and tabular disclosures rather than tagged XBRL data.
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