Thursday, May 29, 2008

Small regional banks.....

Times of distress usually yield good opportunities as even good companies fall prey to negative sentiment and trade at attractive levels. I thought it would be useful and interesting to being tracking a number of bank stocks, since they could become strong buy candidates over the next few months, similar to the opportunity presented by S&L's in the late 80's/early 90's. The general drop in the financial sector has led to significantly higher dividend yields, for example M&I yields almost 6%.

  • Astoria Financial (AF)
  • AmericanWest Bancorporation (AWBC)
  • BB&T (BBT)
  • Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC)
  • Colonial Bancgroup (CNB)
  • Century Bancorp (CNBKA)
  • Evans Bancorp (EVBN)
  • East West Bancorp (EWBC)
  • First Horizon National (FHN)
  • Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach (FMBL.OB)
  • Green Bankshares (GRNB)
  • Hanmi Financial (HAFC)
  • Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK)
  • Investors Bancorp (ISBC)
  • Lincoln Bancorp (LNCB)
  • M&I Corporation (MI)
  • Malaga Financial (MLGF.OB)
  • People's United Financial (PBCT)
  • Provident Bankshares (PBKS)
  • Pulaski Financial (PULB)
  • Sovereign Bancorp (SOV)
  • Severn Bancorp (SVBI)
  • West Coast Bancorp (WCBO)
  • Wintrust Financial (WTFC)

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