HOMB - Home BancShares: Low Yield And Greater Risk Keeps Me Away

Thesis

I have been writing a series of articles on community banks. Conservatively run community banks can provide stable and growing dividend income. In general, the banks that I have already written about showed up as one of five banks passing several screens assessing dividend, dividend safety, valuation, and volatility. Most of the banks I have covered are comparatively small with market capitalizations of roughly $500M - $1.2B. At the request of a reader I am writing about Home BancShares Inc (HOMB), a larger community bank with over 150 branches and a market

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