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Investment Thesis Based in Little Rock, Arkansas, Bank OZK ( OZK ) has $26 billion in assets and conducts operations through more than 250 offices in Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, California, New York, and Mississippi. In order to ensure broad diversification, most ban...
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 ...
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...
"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank." − Ron Paul In Q2 2020, Bank OZK ( OZK ) surprised the Stree...
July Summary I have decided to begin John and Jane's Retirement Account articles with the basic summary of how much income each retiree has generated in their Traditional IRA and Roth IRA for each respective month. Additionally, I have decided that I want to begin tracking the cash balance o...
Bank OZK (OZK) reported earnings of $0.39 per share in the second quarter, compared to $0.09 per share in the first quarter of 2020. The earnings improvement was chiefly attributable to a drop in provision expense. Earnings will likely continue to improve in the remainder of the year because t...
“You don’t know until you know” may be honest advice where bank loan losses are concerned, but it’s not particularly helpful advice. And that’s the issue with Bank OZK ( OZK ) – is past loan loss experience for this construction and CRE lending speci...
Introduction I recently have been looking to add some additional regional banks to my portfolio and have been combing through the recent SEC filings of a bunch of them. I was specifically looking how the banks are dealing with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and how aggressive they ar...
We made it to Yellowstone National Park in July. This is a photo of Gibbons Falls, one of about a half dozen or so waterfalls in the park. More to come in the Motorhome Retirement monthly update that should be out next week. Introduction There are a lot of articles written about stocks and...
In June we sold out Kimco Preferred Series L ( KIM.PL ), and we took advantage of the rise in prices to sell out of Southern California Edison Preferred Series D ( SCE.PD ). SCE.PD has been in the portfolio since the end of 2017 and has produced roughly 2.5 years of dividends for the portfolio...
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bank OZK (the “Bank”) (Nasdaq: OZK) today announced that net income available to common stockholders for the second quarter of 2024 was a record $173.5 million, a 3.3% increase from $167.9 million for the second quarter of 2023. F...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bank OZK’s (the “Bank”) (Nasdaq: OZK) second quarter and first six months 2024 management comments are now available on the Bank’s investor relations website https://ir.ozk.com . GENERAL INFORMATION ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bank OZK (the “Bank”) (Nasdaq: OZK) expects to report its second quarter 2024 earnings after the market closes on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Management’s comments on the second quarter of 2024 will be released simultaneously...