• Net income of $22.4 million for the third quarter of 2011
• Diluted earnings per common share were $0.21 for the third quarter and $0.57 year-to-date
• Allowance for credit losses represents 3.01% of total non-covered loans & leases
• Non-performing loans decreased to $65.2 million. This is down from $157.0 million at December 31, 2010, and now represent 2.06% of total non-covered loans and leases
• Non-interest bearing deposits totaled $1.98 billion (43% of total deposits) at September 30, 2011, an increase of $275.6 million from $1.70 billion at December 31, 2010
• Repurchased 1.5 million shares of common stock at an average price of $7.83 during the third quarter of 2011

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ONTARIO, Calif. -- (Business Wire)

CVB Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:CVBF) and its subsidiary, Citizens Business Bank (“the Company”), announced its second consecutive quarter of record earnings.

CVB Financial Corp. reported net income of $22.4 million for the third quarter of 2011. This represents the highest earnings in company history for a fiscal quarter. Earnings increased $4.5 million, or 24.86%, when compared with net income of $17.9 million for the third quarter of 2010. Diluted earnings per share were $0.21 for the third quarter of 2011. This was up $0.04, or 23.53%, from diluted earnings per share of $0.17 for the same period last year.

Third quarter 2011 operating results included $4.0 million in interest income from accelerated accretion on loans from our FDIC assisted acquisition of San Joaquin Bank (SJB), a $844,000 reduction in other operating income from the decrease in the FDIC loss sharing asset, and a $1.65 million reduction in the provision for unfunded commitments.

Chris Myers, President and CEO, commented, “We are extremely proud of our strong financial results for the quarter. We have made significant progress in reducing our non-performing assets from $162.3 million at December 31, 2010 to $81.2 million at September 30, 2011. In addition, our non-interest bearing deposits continued to grow and now represent over 43% of total deposits.”

Net income for the third quarter of 2011 produced an annualized return on beginning equity of 12.99%, an annualized return on average equity of 12.81% and an annualized return on average assets of 1.37%. The efficiency ratio, excluding the provision for credit losses, was 48.68% for the quarter. Operating expenses as a percentage of average assets were 2.01%.

Net income for the nine months ending September 30, 2011 was $60.0 million. This represents an increase of $6.9 million, or 13.12%, when compared with net income of $53.1 million for the same period of 2010. Diluted earnings per share for the nine months ending September 30, 2011 were $0.57, an increase of $0.07, or 14.00%, over diluted earnings per share of $0.50 for the same period last year. Operating results for the first nine months of 2011 include a provision for credit losses of $7.1 million. Net income for the nine months ending September 30, 2011 produced a return on beginning equity of 12.46%, a return on average equity of 11.97% and a return on average assets of 1.24%.

Interest income and fees on loans for the third quarter of 2011 totaled $52.8 million, which includes $4.0 million of discount accretion from accelerated principal reductions on covered loans acquired from SJB. This represents a decrease of $5.4 million, or 9.24%, when compared to interest income and fees on loans of $58.2 million for the same period last year. Excluding the discount accretion, interest income and fees on loans would have been $48.8 million for the third quarter of 2011.

In addition to the yield adjustment to interest income of $4.0 million for the third quarter of 2011, we calculated a net decrease of $844,000 in the FDIC loss sharing asset as a result of lower estimated losses than projected. The decrease is included in other operating income. In the quarter ended September 30, 2011, we received $14.7 million from the FDIC from previously submitted loss claims.

Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin

Net interest income, before the provision for credit losses, totaled $60.0 million for the three months ending September 30, 2011. Net interest income for the third quarter of 2011 decreased $2.6 million, or 4.21%, compared to the same period in 2010.

Excluding the impact of the yield adjustment on covered loans, net interest margin (tax equivalent) increased from 3.73% for the third quarter of 2010 to 3.81% for the third quarter of 2011. Total average earning asset yields decreased from 4.97% for the third quarter of 2010 to 4.67% for the third quarter of 2011. Total cost of funds decreased from 0.91% for the third quarter of 2010 to 0.59% for the third quarter of 2011.

Assets

The Company reported total assets of $6.53 billion at September 30, 2011. This represents an increase of $93.2 million, or 1.45%, from total assets of $6.44 billion at December 31, 2010. Earning assets (excluding the allowance for loan and lease losses) totaling $6.17 billion increased $146.9 million, or 2.44%, when compared with earning assets of $6.02 billion at December 31, 2010.

Investment Securities

Investment securities totaled $2.17 billion at September 30, 2011. This is up from $1.79 billion at December 31, 2010. As of September 30, 2011, we calculated a pretax unrealized gain of $67.6 million of which $32.9 million is attributed to our municipal securities portfolio. We have no preferred stock or trust preferred securities in our portfolio.

Virtually all of our mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”) are issued by Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, which have the implied guarantee of the U.S. Government. We have one private-label mortgage-backed security that is impaired. This Alt-A bond, with a book value of $2.6 million as of September 30, 2011, has had $1.8 million in net impairment losses to date since it was purchased in early 2008. A $427,000 impairment was recorded in the third quarter of 2011.

Our municipal securities, totaling $641.4 million, are diversified among 604 individual issues and located in 30 states with 6.3% located within the state of California. Our largest holdings are in New Jersey 14.3%, Illinois 12.5% and Michigan 12.3%. All municipal bond securities are performing.

We continue to reinvest our cash flows from the investment portfolio. During the third quarter we purchased $279.6 million in MBS with an average yield of 1.99% and $839,000 in municipal securities with an average tax-equivalent yield of 5.66%. MBS purchased in the third quarter have an average duration of about 3.0 years as our purchasing strategy is to minimize extension risk as interest rates rise.

Loans

Total loans and leases of $3.46 billion at September 30, 2011 decreased by $290.0 million, or 7.73%, from $3.75 billion at December 31, 2010. We attribute a significant portion of the decrease to the following:

• $45.3 million in note sales related to our former largest borrower.
• $87.9 million from working down problem assets acquired from SJB.
• $45.7 million decline in non-covered construction loans.
• $27.8 million decline in purchased mortgage pools.

The non-covered construction loans and purchased mortgage pools are considered non-core lending niches. Our core lending strategy is focused on commercial & industrial business lending, dairy and livestock lending, agribusiness lending and commercial real estate loans.

Deposits & Customer Repurchase Agreements

Deposits of $4.59 billion and customer repurchase agreements of $485.3 million totaled $5.07 billion at September 30, 2011. This represents an increase of $13.4 million, or 0.26%, when compared with total deposits and customer repurchase agreements of $5.06 billion at December 31, 2010.

Non-interest bearing deposits were $1.98 billion at September 30, 2011, an increase of $275.6 million or 16.20% from $1.70 billion at December 31, 2010. At September 30, 2011, non-interest bearing deposits were 43.08% of total deposits, up from 37.65% at December 31, 2010.

Our cost of total deposits was 0.17% for the three months ending September 30, 2011, compared to our cost of total deposits of 0.37% for the same period last year. Our cost of total deposits including customer repurchase agreements was 0.19% for the three months ending September 30, 2011 compared to 0.41% for the same period last year.

Borrowings

At September 30, 2011, we had $548.6 million in borrowings, compared to borrowings of $553.4 million at December 31, 2010 and $553.3 million at September 30, 2010. The $4.8 million decrease from December 31, 2010 was primarily due to the redemption of $5.0 million in subordinated debt.

Asset Quality

We have separated the discussion of asset quality into two sections: non-covered loans and covered loans. The non-covered loans represent the legacy Citizens Business Bank loans and exclude all loans acquired in the 2009 SJB acquisition. The SJB loans were marked to fair value at the acquisition date and are “covered” loans as defined in the loss sharing agreement with the FDIC.

Citizens Business Bank Asset Quality (Non-covered loans)

The allowance for credit losses decreased from $105.2 million as of December 31, 2010 to $95.5 million as of September 30, 2011. The decrease was due to net loan charge-offs of $16.8 million, offset by a $7.1 million provision for credit losses during the first nine months of 2011. The allowance for credit losses was 3.01% and 3.12% of total non-covered loans and leases outstanding as of September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively.

There was zero provision for credit losses for the third quarter of 2011.

We had $65.2 million in non-performing loans at September 30, 2011, or 2.06% of total non-covered loans. This compares to non-performing loans of $157.0 million at December 31, 2010. The non-performing loans for the third quarter are summarized as follows: $1.0 million in residential construction, $13.8 million in commercial construction, $18.8 million in residential mortgages, $25.4 million in commercial real estate, $3.3 million in commercial and industrial, $2.6 million in dairy loans, and $300,000 in all other loans.

At September 30, 2011, we had $16.0 million in Other Real Estate Owned (“OREO”), an increase of $10.7 million from OREO of $5.3 million at December 31, 2010. At December 31, 2010, we had three OREO properties. During the first nine months of 2011, we added twelve properties for a total of $13.9 million to OREO. We sold three properties with an OREO value of $2.8 million for cash proceeds of $2.8 million. We also recorded $0.4 million in write-downs of OREO properties due to appraisal revaluations. We now have twelve OREO properties valued at $16.0 million.

At September 30, 2011, we had loans delinquent 30 to 89 days of $2.0 million. This compares to delinquent loans of $3.9 million at June 2011, $3.6 million at March 31, 2011, and $9.1 million at December 31, 2010. As a percentage of total loans, delinquencies, excluding non-accruals, were 0.06% at September 30, 2011, 0.12% at June 30, 2011, 0.11% at March 31, 2011, and 0.27% at December 31, 2010. All loans delinquent 90 days or more were categorized as non-performing.

At September 30, 2011, we had $32.2 million in performing troubled debt restructured loans (“TDRs”), an increase of $18.9 million from performing TDRs of $13.3 million at December 31, 2010. In terms of number of loans, we had five performing TDRs at December 31, 2010 compared to thirteen performing TDRs at September 30, 2011. $17.1 million of the $18.9 million increase in performing TDRs is due to two commercial real estate loans that emerged out of bankruptcy court and are now paying in accordance with the terms approved by the court.

In total, non-performing assets, defined as non-covered non-accrual loans plus OREO, have decreased substantially and were $81.2 million at September 30, 2011, $88.8 million at June 30, 2011, $114.4 million at March 31, 2011 and $162.3 million at December 31, 2010.

We have made substantial progress in reducing our classified loans. At September 30, 2011, classified loans were $357.2 million, $445.3 million at June, 30, 2011, $588.7 million at March 31, 2011 and $654.1 million at December 31, 2010.

San Joaquin Bank Asset Quality (Covered loans)

At September 30, 2011 we had $354.6 million in gross loans from SJB with a carrying value of $286.1 million, compared to $488.8 million of gross loans at December 31, 2010 and $374.0 million in carrying value. Of the gross loans, we have $85.1 million in loans 90 days or more past due as of September 30, 2011, or 24.01%, compared to $133.1 million in loans 90 days or more past due at December 31, 2010. We have 20 properties in OREO totaling $14.2 million compared to 17 properties totaling $11.3 million at December 31, 2010.

CitizensTrust

CitizensTrust has approximately $2.0 billion in assets under administration, including $1.6 billion in assets under management, as of September 30, 2011. This compares with $2.1 billion in assets under administration, including $1.1 billion in assets under management, at December 31, 2010. The increase in managed assets is primarily due to the conversion of custodial and non-managed accounts into managed accounts. Revenues from CitizensTrust were $6.5 million and $6.3 million for nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. CitizensTrust provides trust, investment and brokerage related services, as well as financial, estate and business succession planning.

Repurchase of Common Stock

In July 2008, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to 10,000,000 shares of our common stock. During the third quarter of 2011, we repurchased 1,502,503 shares of common stock at the average price of $7.83. As of September 30, 2011, we have 7,897,497 shares of our common stock remaining that are eligible for repurchase.

Conference Call

Management will hold a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time/11:30 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, October 20^th (tomorrow) to discuss the Company’s third quarter 2011 financial results.

To listen to the conference call, please dial (877) 317-6789. A taped replay will be made available approximately one hour after the conclusion of the call and will remain available through October 29, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. To access the replay, please dial (877) 344-7529, passcode 10004998.

The conference call will also be simultaneously webcast over the Internet. Please visit the Company’s website at www.cbbank.com and click on the CVB Investor tab to access the call from the site. Access the website 15 minutes prior to the call to download any necessary audio software. This webcast will be recorded and available for replay on the Company’s website approximately two hours after the conclusion of the conference call, and will be available on the website for twelve months.

Corporate Overview

CVB Financial Corp. is the holding company for Citizens Business Bank, a financial services company based in Ontario, California. Citizens Business Bank serves 41 cities with 43 business financial centers and five commercial banking centers in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Orange County and the Central Valley areas of California.

Shares of CVB Financial Corp. common stock are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol of CVBF. For investor information on CVB Financial Corp., visit our Citizens Business Bank website at www.cbbank.com and click on the CVB Investor tab.

Safe Harbor

Certain matters set forth herein (including the exhibits hereto) constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including forward-looking statements relating to the Company's current business plan and expectations regarding future operating results. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, local, regional, national and international economic conditions and events and the impact they may have on us and our customers; ability to attract deposits and other sources of liquidity; oversupply of inventory and continued deterioration in values of California real estate, both residential and commercial; a prolonged slowdown in construction activity; changes in the financial performance and/or condition of our borrowers; changes in the level of non-performing assets and charge-offs; the effect of changes in laws and regulations (including laws and regulations concerning taxes, banking, securities, executive compensation and insurance) with which we and our subsidiaries must comply; changes in estimates of future reserve requirements based upon the periodic review thereof under relevant regulatory and accounting requirements; inflation, interest rate, securities market and monetary fluctuations; political instability; acts of war or terrorism, or natural disasters, such as earthquakes, or the effects of pandemic flu; the timely development and acceptance of new banking products and services and perceived overall value of these products and services by users; changes in consumer spending, borrowing and savings habits; technological changes; the ability to increase market share and control expenses; changes in the competitive environment among financial and bank holding companies and other financial service providers; continued volatility in the credit and equity markets and its effect on the general economy; the effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted by the regulatory agencies, as well as the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and other accounting standard setters; changes in our organization, management, compensation and benefit plans; the costs and effects of legal and regulatory developments including the resolution of legal proceedings or regulatory or other governmental inquiries and the results of regulatory examinations or reviews; our success at managing the risks involved in the foregoing items and other factors set forth in the Company's public reports including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, and particularly the discussion of risk factors within that document. The Company does not undertake, and specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect occurrences or unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statements except as required by law.