FMCB News and Press, Farmers & Merchants Bancorp From 03/16/20

Introduction I published my first article for the new year on the Dividend Kings in January 2020 with an article entitled “ Dividend Kings Analysis: Most Are Overvalued .” I skipped February’s article on the Dividend Kings and instead wrote about the Dividend Cham...

LODI, Calif., Feb. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (OTCQX: FMCB) today announced that the Company earned record net income of $56.0 million or $71.18 per share of common stock for the year-ending December 31, 2019, resulting in a return on average assets of 1.61...

Overview In this article I analyze the 29 Dividend Kings, an exclusive group of stocks that have increased their dividend for 50+ consecutive years. The top five stocks in the ranking model have changed due to increase in valuation for some stocks resulting from the bull market since the F...

The last year was quite successful for a range of value strategies, including the Top 10 Dividend Kings, which consists of Dividend Kings that offer the highest shareholder yield (dividend yield + buyback yield). As the valuation spread between the value and growth stocks is at the multi-deca...

Investing in the best growth stocks can generate superior returns over the long term. On the other hand, growth stocks are also particularly volatile and risky. The key, like usually happens, is separating the fundamentally sound companies from the ones with mediocre fundamentals. The follow...

Although historically value-focused approaches outperformed the market, the last five years were rather poor across different value strategies. However, since the beginning of this year, the value stocks are back in vogue. During the first eleven months of this year, Top 10 Dividend Kings, a...

Overview In this article, I analyze the 29 Dividend Kings, an exclusive group of stocks that have increased their dividend for 50+ consecutive years. There is now one more Dividend King since Sysco Corporation ( SYY ) recently raised the quarterly dividend permitting this company to ente...

LODI, Calif., Nov. 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (OTCQX: FMCB) (the Company) announced that the Board of Directors declared a year-end cash dividend of $7.15 per share of common stock, an increase of 2.14% over the cash dividend declared in November of 2018. T...

Overview In this article I analyze the 28 Dividend Kings, an exclusive group of stocks that have increased their dividend for 50+ consecutive years. There is now one less Dividend King since San Jose Water ( SJW ) completed its merger with Connecticut Water Service ( CTWS ) on October 9 th...

During the first ten months of this year, the Top 10 Dividend Kings strategy significantly outperformed the group of 26 Dividend Kings. However, during October, the outperformance slightly decreased by 0.34% to 8.20%. The worst performing stock of the strategy was Colgate-Palmolive ( CL ), wit...