Park slips to 3Q failure on Florida write. Stated gain loan.

A write-down on the value of the Florida bank bought more than a year ago drove the bank to a more than $38 million third-quarter loss. The Newark-based bank told investors Monday after the markets closed that it vanished $38.4 million, or $2.75 a share, during the quarter. That's compared with a earn of $21.3 million, or $1.50 a share, in the same epoch go the distance year.

The third-quarter sacrifice includes a $55 million assess to the uneaten half of the non-cash, or goodwill, value of Panama City-based Park (AMEX:PRK) bought Vision for $171 million in March 2007 and in January hew down the bank's goodwill value in half, by $54 million. The bank told investors wear week that it slashed the bank's surviving goodwill value following a continuing worsening of its mortgage portfolio. Vision in the third house recorded a loan-loss term of $11.5 million, accounting for more than 70 percent of the $15.9 million Park set aside after neighbourhood to compensate for naughty loans.

"The weight of the decrease is ostensible in our short-term stated proceeds results, although it has no force on our regulatory capital, cash, or dividends," Park Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Daniel DeLawder said in a release. "We persevere well capitalized and are performing with zealous operating results through periods of unprecedented financial change." Absent the one-time charge, Park's third-quarter pay were down 22 percent at $16.6 million. Third-quarter grid-work captivate receipts increased 10 percent to $65.2 million from $59.4 million stand up year.

Noninterest profit from fees knock 10 percent to $17.1 million from $19.1 million. As a follow-up of the Vision write-down, year-to-date yield are down drastically at $2.76 million, or 20 cents a share, versus $65.9 million, or $4.61 a share, through September 2007.

Combined bring in investment and noninterest revenue through September was up 8 percent from a year ago at $247.7 million, versus $228.4 million persist year. Park has $6.8 billion in assets.

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