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Heritage Financial Corporation ("Company" or "Heritage") (Nasdaq: HFWA) announced today a change of its 2020 annual shareholders' meeting. Due to the continuing public health impact of the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), and as part of our continued focus to provide a safe and healthy environment to our shareholders, associates, vendors and employees, Heritage has changed the meeting format from a physical in-person meeting to a virtual webcast, and invites shareholders to participate remotely.

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Shares of Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) were unchanged at $21.77 after the company reported Q1 results.Quarterly Results Earnings per share fell 26.67% over the past year to $0.33, which beat the estimate of $0.31.Revenue of $58,037,000 rose by 1.43% year over year, which beat the estimate of $56,030,000.Guidance Heritage Financial hasn't issued any earnings guidance for the time being.Revenue guidance hasn't been issued by the company for now.Conference Call Details Date: Apr 30, 2020View more earnings on HFWATime: 01:00 PM ETWebcast URL: http://www.hf-wa.com/eventRecent Stock Performance 52-week high: $31.81Company's 52-week low was at $17.07Price action over last quarter: down 18.89%Company Description Heritage Financial Corp is a bank holding company. The company through its subsidiary provides commercial lending and deposit relationships with small businesses and their owners in its market areas and attracting deposits from the general public. It accepts various deposit products, such as noninterest demand accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. Besides, the Bank also makes real estate construction loans, land development loans, and consumer loans, and originates first mortgage loans on residential properties primarily located in its market area. Geographically, all the business activity if functioned through the region of the United States.See more from Benzinga * CRA International: Q1 Earnings Insights * Recap: Carpenter Tech Q3 Earnings * Overstock.com: Q1 Earnings Insights(C) 2020 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

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Heritage Financial (HFWA) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 2.17% and -0.36%, respectively, for the quarter ended December 2019. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

Heritage Financial (HFWA) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 6.45% and 4.65%, respectively, for the quarter ended March 2020. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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Q1 2020 Heritage Financial Corp Earnings Call

Heritage Financial Corporation ("Company") (Nasdaq: HFWA), announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to 5% of the Company's outstanding shares or approximately 1.8 million shares. The number, timing and price of shares repurchased will depend on business and market conditions, and other factors, including opportunities to deploy the Company's capital. The repurchase program may be discontinued at any time.

This is Jeff Deuel, CEO of Heritage Financial. With me in the room are Don Hinson, our Chief Financial Officer; Dave Spurling, our Chief Credit Officer; and Bryan McDonald is our Chief Operating Officer is on by extension, he is at one of our remote locations this morning.

Heritage Financial Corporation (NASDAQ GS: HFWA) (the "Company" or "Heritage"), the parent company of Heritage Bank ("Bank"), today reported that the Company had net income of $12.2 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 compared to $17.1 million for the linked-quarter ended December 31, 2019 and $16.6 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2019. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 was $0.33 compared to $0.47 for the linked-quarter ended December 31, 2019 and $0.45 for the quarter ended March 31, 2019. Financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 included a provision for credit losses on loans of $10.0 million as a result of adopting CECL and reflects forecasted credit deterioration due to the Coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic.

Q3 2019 Heritage Financial Corp Earnings Call

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Q4 2019 Heritage Financial Corp Earnings Call

Heritage Financial Corporation ("Company" or "Heritage") (Nasdaq: HFWA) anticipates issuing its first quarter earnings release on Thursday, April 30, 2020 before the market opens. The Company has scheduled a telephone conference call to discuss the first quarter earnings on Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time (2:00 p.m. Eastern time).