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Top 5 Companies in the Regional Banks Industry Offering Investors the Best Value (FBP, CASB, SUPR, BANR, CADE)

Written on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 4:31am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Regional Banks industry as measured by the price to book ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
First Bancorp (NYSE:FBP) has a price to book ratio of 0.1x based on a current price of $0.48 and a book value per share of $6.04.
Cascade Financial (NASDAQ:CASB) has a price to book ratio of 0.1x based on a current price of $0.65 and a book value per share of $5.51.
Superior Bancorp (NASDAQ:SUPR) has a price to book ratio of 0.1x based on a current price of $2.09 and a book value per share of $16.01.
Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) has a price to book ratio of 0.2x based on a current price of $1.99 and a book value per share of $12.64.
Cadence Financial (NASDAQ:CADE) has a price to book ratio of 0.2x based on a current price of $1.2 and a book value per share of $6.44.
SmarTrend is bearish on shares of FBP and our subscribers were alerted to Sell on April 28, 2010 at $2.41. The stock has fallen 80.1% since the alert was issued.

Keywords: keywords: nyse:fbp first bancorp price to book ratio

Ticker(s): FBP CASB SUPR BANR CADE

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