Dearborn Bancorp, Inc.: Warming Up or Cooling Off? (DEAR)

Dearborn Bancorp, Inc.: Warming Up or Cooling Off?

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November 25, 2009 | Comments (3)

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Here's the community sentiment on Dearborn Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: DEAR ) both this quarter and last (for comparison), as well as opinions on some related companies.

Metric	Dearborn Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: DEAR )	SCBT Financial Corp (Nasdaq: SCBT )	Merchants Bancshares,Inc. (Nasdaq: MBVT )	United Bankshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBSI )
This Quarter (11/16/2009):
Price:	$.70	$26.99	$22.52	$16.77
% of Members Rating Outperform	20%	80%	77%	57%
% of All-Star Members Rating Outperform	25%	50%	60%	50%
CAPS Rating (out of 5)
Last Quarter (8/18/2009):
Price:	$1.33	$26.74	$23.59	$19.44
% of Members Rating Outperform	27%	74%	76%	56%
% of All-Star Members Rating Outperform	40%	40%	80%	63%
CAPS Rating (out of 5)

Source: Motley Fool CAPS. Dates given are the posting dates of Dearborn Bancorp, Inc.'s most recent quarterly and/or annual reports to the SEC's website. Percentages are calculated from the number of members rating each company.

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Report this Comment On November 25, 2009, at 12:43 PM, loveSEMich wrote:

About $90 million in losses over last 12 months and under $50 million in capital make this one to avoid. The Texas Ratio is in the 90%, and went from 40% last September, to the 60% are earlier in the year, and jumped to over 90% using todays numbers. Believe the Texas Ratio will be over 200% at this time next year, if the bank is still around. Too many non performing loans, and too many TDR loans.
Report this Comment On January 20, 2010, at 11:33 PM, UltraContrarian wrote:

Apparently the former.
Report this Comment On August 08, 2011, at 5:01 PM, promommyfool wrote:

I bought one of these little banks back in Oct. of 2009 and several more in May 2010. All were under 5.00 a share. My husband sold off the first one (his was our only investing account at the time. I have my own now) and I sold off one of the others this May that wasn't showing any signs of life. Bottom line is every one sold has popped to over 15.00 within a month after the sale. I apparently pick good, but don't hold long enough. DEAR and the other three I still own I'm holding for dear life.