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

Benzinga

Net Interest and Dividend Income Tax equivalent net interest income of $11.3 See SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION – Net Interest and Dividend Income on page 9 of this release for additional details. million, were partially offset by common stock dividends paid of $0.9 Book value per common share of $22.79

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

Musings on Markets

The notion of computing a cost of capital for a bank is fanciful and fruitless, and any attempt to compute an enterprise value for a bank is destined to end in failure. Note the differences between the bank FCFE and bank dividend discount models. Note the differences between the bank FCFE and bank dividend discount models.

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Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows

Musings on Markets

This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions.

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

Musings on Markets

The second was that, starting mid-year in 2020, equity markets and the real economy moved in different directions, with the former rising on the expectations a post-virus future, and the latter languishing, as most of the world continued to operate with significant constraints.

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar. The Value of Growth As investor tastes have shifted from earnings power to growth, there has been a tendency to put growth on a pedestal, and view it as an unalloyed good, but it is not.

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

Musings on Markets

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

Musings on Markets

Your answer to that question will determine not just how you approach running the business, but also the details of how you pick investments, choose a financing mix and decide how much to return to shareholders, as dividend or buybacks. Does profitability vary across the globe?

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