Amidst turmoil in the financial sector this week and over the past year, the following is a list of Pennsylvania-based banks and financial services companies with market caps over $100M that have recorded stock price gains over the past year.
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The 11 companies are listed in descending order by 52-week stock price performance and include the following top performers: Univest – biggest gainer at 38%, First Commonwealth (which I wrote about 15 months ago with a yield over 6%) – biggest dividend yield at 5.4%, and PNC Financial – biggest market cap at $25.3B. With Dow component American International Group (AIG) down over 30% on Friday, and other blow-ups this week such as Lehman Brothers (LEH) and Washington Mutual (WM), the strength in these
Company Name (Ticker), 52-Week Change, Market Cap, Dividend Yield
- Univest Corp. of PA (UVSP) +38.0%, $380M, 2.7%
- Beneficial Mutual Bancorp (BNCL) +27.9%, $991M, 0%
- Republic First Bancorp (FRBK) +23.2%, $108M, 0%
- Citizens & Northern Corp. (CZNC) +21.4%, $197M, 4.4%
- First Commonwealth Financial (FCF) +15.7%, $924M, 5.4%
- Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. (BMTC) +6.7%, $199M, 2.4%
- PNC Financial Services (PNC) +6.6%, $25.3B, 3.6%
- Abington Bancorp (ABBC) +6.5%, $248M, 2.0%
- S&T Bancorp (STBA) +3.5%, $954M, 3.6%
- ESB Financial Corp. (ESBF) +2.9%, $126M, 3.9%
- Northwest Bancorp (NWSB) +1.7%, $1.4B, 3.1%
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