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

Benzinga

Strategic Transaction Highlights: Creates a premier middle-market bank focused on serving the greater New York metro area Pro forma company will have significant scale, with $14 billion in assets and a market capitalization of over $1.2

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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.

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

Musings on Markets

Price to Book Ratio: Choice and Drivers There is no sector where price to book ratios get used more than in banking and financial services, for two reasons. To use the price to book ratio to price banks, I begin by identifying its drivers, and that is simple to do, if you start with an intrinsic equity valuation model.

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Why the Poison Pill Is Still Relevant After All These Years – Even in Japan  

Reynolds Holding

The J-Pill experienced a near death, as many companies withdrew defensive measures in the still-quiescent domestic market for corporate control. The number of listed companies with defensive measures peaked at 574 in August 2008 and fell to 387 in October 2018. [3]