In my prior life, I was a community bank auditor. I absolutely love the industry of banking and more specifically, community banking. The reason why I love it so much, is they are relatively smaller companies, who are intertwined in the city/locale in which they inhabit. They carry an, "everyone knows everyone" type of feel. Do you know what else they carry? Performance, safe investing in loans & investments, that produces cash flow for juicy dividends!
Not only do they produce results for their shareholders, but there is also another consistent event occurring. Now that