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Small Banks See Small Gains in Valuation: An Update on the Little Guys
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Naomi Snyder
Editor-in-Chief
Editor-in-Chief Naomi Snyder is in charge of the editorial coverage at Bank Director. She oversees the magazine and the editorial team’s efforts on the Bank Director website, newsletter and special projects. She has more than two decades of experience in business journalism and spent 15 years as a newspaper reporter. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.
Small bank stocks that don’t trade on the big exchanges have missed out on the price gains of the big bank stocks lately. During the third quarter, the Monroe Securities community bank stock index rose .7 percent and its thrift index climbed 4.1 percent, while the SNL Bank and Thrift Index climbed 7.1 percent, according to the firm, which is a market maker for more than 1,000 community bank stocks.
That’s a change from the second quarter, when big banks were sucking wind and community stocks saw slight gains.
Valuations for community banks improved slightly during the third quarter. The average price to tangible book value for community banks, defined as banks below $1 billion in assets, was 78 percent, according to Monroe Securities. That was an improvement from about 76 percent in the prior quarter but a big climb from end of 2011, when community bank stocks sunk to a low of about 66 percent price to tangible book value.
The number of small bank mergers or acquisitions improved slightly in the quarter, at 49, compared to 45 the quarter before, and 50 deals in the first quarter. M&A deal values fell a bit, from 125 percent of tangible book value to 95 percent in the third quarter.
Monroe Securities uses stock values based on OTC Markets and OTC Pink, an electronic bulletin board for stocks that don’t trade on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ OMX.
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* Trends are based off banks with less than $1 billion in assets.
* Source: Monroe Securities
WRITTEN BY
Naomi Snyder
Editor-in-Chief
Editor-in-Chief Naomi Snyder is in charge of the editorial coverage at Bank Director. She oversees the magazine and the editorial team’s efforts on the Bank Director website, newsletter and special projects. She has more than two decades of experience in business journalism and spent 15 years as a newspaper reporter. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.