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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

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I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis. Markets, as is their wont, live to surprise, and the first six months of 2023 has wrong-footed the experts (again).

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Salisbury Bancorp, Inc. Reports Results for First Quarter 2023; Declares 16 Cent Dividend

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and 0.91%, Respectively, Excluding Non-Recurring Expenses First Quarter 2023 Loan Growth of $22.1 Non-performing Assets were 0.14% of Total Assets at March 31, 2023 Common Equity Tier 1 and Tangible Common Equity Ratio of 12.16% and 7.63%, Respectively, at March 31, 2023 1 LAKEVILLE, Conn., million, or 1.8% million, or $0.52

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

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I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Dividend yield & payout 3. Buybacks 2.

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Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc. Reports First Quarter Earnings and Declares Dividend

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April 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc. NASDAQ: MPB ) ("Mid Penn"), the parent company of Mid Penn Bank (the "Bank") and MPB Financial Services, LLC, today reported net income available to common shareholders ("earnings") for the quarter ended March 31, 2023 of $11.2 HARRISBURG, Pa.,

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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For example, I have seen it asserted that a stock that trades at less than book value is cheap or that a stock that trades at more than twenty times EBITDA is expensive. In January 2023, I ended up with 47,913 publicly traded firms in my sample , with the pie chart below providing a geographic breakdown. Return on Equity 1.

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Provident Financial Services, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2024 Results Inclusive of Merger-Related Costs and Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

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per basic and diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2023. per basic and diluted share, for the six months ended June 30, 2023. million for the respective 2023 periods. and 16.7%, respectively, versus the same period in 2023. per basic and diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2023.

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Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business?

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In this post, I start by looking at the end game for businesses, and how that choice plays out in investment rules for these businesses, and then examine how much businesses generated in profits in 2023, scaled to both revenues and invested capital. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game? trillion ($1.8

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