FMCB News and Press, Farmers & Merchants Bancorp From 10/13/20

A dividend growth analysis of the 30 Dividend Kings is presented. Commerce Bancshares, Target, Stepan Company, Hormel, and Cincinnati Financial are the Top 5 Dividend Kings in the ranking model. The highest yielding Dividend King is Altria. The one with the lowest valuation is 3M....

Dividend Champions can form the cornerstone of any income-oriented portfolio, but most of us don’t have enough time to analyze all 138 stocks thoroughly. To represent the trade-off between quality and price, we group the candidates into three categories, namely “Attracti...

A Series of Articles Spotlighting Dividend Champion Banks Having wrapped up the initial research phase for a second edition to my 2016 book about bank investing, I am now drilling deeper into major themes that may have the greatest benefit to long-term bank investors. One of those th...

Contrarian Play: Buy Bank Stocks In my last post , I made the case for Dividend Champion banks as a contrarian value play. If the market is rotating from Growth to Value, likely bank investors will be beneficiaries. However, given the enormous uncertainties facing investors today, now is ...

Introduction Besides publishing our established " Wide-Moat Stocks On Sale " monthly shortlist of companies exclusive for Seeking Alpha readers, we decided to launch a parallel stock selection series, focused on candidates fitting a Dividend Growth Investor’s portfolio. While a comp...

The Bank Dividend Champion Honor Roll In my book, Investing in Banks (2016, Risk Management Association), one chapter analyzed 31 publicly traded banks that increased their dividends annually from 2004 through 2014. Less than 10% of all US banks increased dividends during the 2008-09 G...

Introduction The Dividend Champions list is a monthly compilation of companies which have consistently increased their annual dividend payouts, and the latest edition may be found here . However, since this list is only produced once per month, the data in it can quickly get out of date. Fu...

LODI, Calif., May 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (OTCQX: FMCB), a bank holding company headquartered in Lodi, California, declared a mid-year cash dividend of $7.25 per share, an increase over the $7.05 per share declared in May of 201...

LODI, Calif., April 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (OTCQX: FMCB) today announced record net income of $14.1 million for first quarter 2020. For the quarter ended March 31, 2020, Farmers & Merchants Bancorp reported net income of $14.1 million, or $17.80 ...

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...