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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

I also used the banking framework to argue that good banks have stickier deposits, with a higher precent of these deposits being non-interest bearing, that they invest in loans and investment securities on which they earn interest rates that cover and exceed the default risk in these investments. All Equity, All the time!

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ConnectOne Bancorp, Inc. to Expand on Long Island Through Merger with The First of Long Island Corporation

Benzinga

Based on S&P Capital IQ Pro data as of June 30, 2023, First of Long Island is ranked #4 in Nassau County and #5 in Suffolk County in deposit market share among banks under $100 billion of assets. "We said Frank Sorrentino III, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ConnectOne Bank. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.,

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Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Peoples-Sidney Financial Corporation, Sidney, Ohio

Benzinga

Based on FMAO's closing share price as of June 14, 2022 of $34.28, the implied aggregate acquisition value equals $27.0 Peoples expands F&M's community banking franchise into compelling Sidney, Ohio and surrounding markets in Shelby County. billion, total loans of $2.1 billion, and total assets of $2.8

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Why Are Acquiring Companies So Reluctant to Amortize Purchased Goodwill?

Reynolds Holding

they opted for pooling accounting, in which goodwill was not recognized and therefore not amortized; the book value of the assets and liabilities of the two businesses were just added together. The fees earned by the banks, lawyers, accountants, and PR advisers acting for acquirer and target are striking. In the U.S.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

Challenge rules of thumb and conventional wisdom : Investing has always had rules of thumb on how and when to invest, ranging from using historical PE or CAPE ratios to decide if markets are over valued, to simplistic rules (eg. buy stocks that trade at less than book value or trade at PEG ratios less than one) for individual stocks.