written by reader Battered & Thinly Traded Banks: So, I’m Long

by robtcohen | January 9, 2012 10:21 am

I do not know of their ”short interest,” so let us know, please,
if you findout.
These all are depressed penny stocks that can be
considered as lottery tickets/gambling[1], I concede.
Waccamaw, WBNK, Carolina coast, recently agreed to sell off
11 of its 16 branches to solvent bank. The intriguing to me deal is
scheduled to be closed apparently soon/this winter. Kicked off of NASDAQ, and it’s currently under 35 cents per share. With a name like Waccamaw, Williard Scott could invest some spokesperson jelly money & make me a wacky schmuck …uh… already?
GBNK: Guaranty Bank of Texas, Schwab rates it B* on descending scale ABCDF, which ain’t tripe. Current price around $1.40 a share.
I’m also for: Royal Bank of Pennsylvania which is under $2, and Flagstar under a 75 cents, and the regional Synovus, SNV, which
still owes TARP, while Schwab rates it B* and it’s currently approx
$1.60 per share & not thinly traded.

Endnotes:
  1. gambling: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/tag/gambling/

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4 responses to “written by reader Battered & Thinly Traded Banks: So, I’m Long”

  1. robtcohen says:

    Correction: Charles Schwab rates SNV, Synovus, a C* (not B*)
    and, btw, the share price is up two cents at about 11:00am,
    Monday, 1-9-2012. “Penny-Banks” generally seem to be knock-wood
    slightly bullish, and if I’ve cohened a ludicrous piggy bank play pun phrase,
    then Merriam Oxford Webster Funk Cambridge Wagnalls Dictionary, don’t debit
    damnit

  2. robtcohen says:

    An oops/error correction is favorable for the stock:
    GBNK is rated as B and not as B*
    Schwab’s analyst apparently likes more about the approx buck and half
    bank stock than others. I quickly dropped-out of freshman accounting, while I’m glad that somebodies endured. “They say” analyzing banks gets complicated,
    because, apparently, of that alleged flaw of not marking to market/re-evaluating the collateral. When ya get into bank stocks, a short cut of an informal bank analyst is the “Texas ratio,” I think they call it.

  3. robtcohen says:

    Subj: Lotto like bank gambles, there are dozens if not hundreds of ’em, and this is our
    1930s of “buying low,” I suppose, and so–do not play–this lottery scratch-off:
    CBCR, Capitol Bancshares, closes at apprx 16 cents Friday Jan 13th, hdqs at Lansing, Mich, and has interests of give/take twenty-six inter-related banks,
    aka insecure/chaos aka typically hellaciously scary commercial & drowning residential loans. Thus, this newspaper article re another mega powerball aka sucker play:
    http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2010/12/27/20101227capitol-bancorp-survive.html

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