Preferred Bank Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.70 (NASDAQ:PFBC)

Preferred Bank (NASDAQ:PFBC) declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 19th, Zacks reports. Investors of record on Monday, October 7th will be given a dividend of 0.70 per share by the bank on Monday, October 21st. This represents a $2.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.51%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, October 7th.

Preferred Bank has raised its dividend payment by an average of 22.4% annually over the last three years. Preferred Bank has a payout ratio of 31.4% meaning its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Equities research analysts expect Preferred Bank to earn $8.91 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $2.80 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 31.4%.

Preferred Bank Stock Up 1.9 %

Shares of NASDAQ:PFBC opened at $79.84 on Friday. Preferred Bank has a fifty-two week low of $58.52 and a fifty-two week high of $91.67. The company has a quick ratio of 1.07, a current ratio of 1.07 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $79.75 and its 200-day simple moving average is $77.65. The company has a market cap of $1.15 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.71 and a beta of 0.95.

Preferred Bank (NASDAQ:PFBC) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 25th. The bank reported $2.48 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.39 by $0.09. The company had revenue of $130.70 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $70.55 million. Preferred Bank had a return on equity of 20.24% and a net margin of 27.35%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $2.61 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Preferred Bank will post 9.61 earnings per share for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

PFBC has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Piper Sandler upped their price objective on Preferred Bank from $88.00 to $105.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, July 29th. Stephens upped their price target on shares of Preferred Bank from $84.00 to $95.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 30th.

Preferred Bank Company Profile

Preferred Bank provides various commercial banking products and services to small and mid-sized businesses and their owners, entrepreneurs, real estate developers and investors, professionals, and high net worth individuals. The company accepts checking, savings, and money market deposit accounts; fixed-rate and fixed maturity retail, and non-retail certificates of deposit; and individual retirement accounts.