Dirt Cheap Banks
Community banks are the last bastion of cheap value in the public markets. I find dirt cheap banks and invest in size.
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BCBP: A Postmortem
In March of this year, we published a piece on BCB Bancorp that made a specific argument. The bank had suffered an isolated credit event concentrated in cannabis lending. The core portfolio was clean. The CEO was positioned to either re-rat...
Two Iowa Banks Are Hiding 1987 Losses in a Blank Field
The national delinquency rate on farm operating loans is 1.10%. It has printed between 1.10% and 1.19% for seven straight quarters. Every ag economist, every Fed survey, every sell-side note on the regional banks quotes that number, and tha...
Catalyst in the $50k Portfolio just hit
And I added another position
The timing of me buying a position in one of these small banks is incredible.
The Bank That's Worth More Dead Than Alive
This is the full write-up on position #5 in the $50,000 portfolio. Free subscribers get the setup below. Paid subscribers get the name, the ticker, and what I think it sells for.
There is a 142-year-old savings and loan on the Gulf Coast w...
Seven Banks Nobody Is Talking About
The $50,000 experiment
On September 1st, 2026 I posted an article titled “The Strategy That Breaks at $10 Million.” In it I argued that the best remaining pocket of inefficiency in public markets is community banks so small and illiquid th...
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Community banks are the last bastion of cheap value in the public markets. I find dirt cheap banks and invest in size.
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