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Eastern Virginia Bankshares Dividend Yield % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Eastern Virginia Bankshares's Dividend Yield %
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Eastern Virginia Bankshares's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Eastern Virginia Bankshares's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Banks Industry
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Eastern Virginia Bankshares's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
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Eastern Virginia Bankshares Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Eastern Virginia Bankshares (NAS:EVBS) Dividend Yield % Explanation
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Eastern Virginia Bankshares (Eastern Virginia Bankshares) Business Description
Eastern Virginia Bankshares Inc a Virginia corporation was incorporated on September 5, 1997. The Company is a bank holding company. Through its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, EVB, it operates 21 full service branches and 2 drive-in facilities in eastern Virginia. EVB is a community bank targeting small to medium-sized businesses and consumers in its traditional coastal plain markets and the emerging suburbs outside of the Richmond and Greater Tidewater areas. It provides personal and commercial banking services including commercial, consumer and real estate loans. It also provides retail and commercial deposit products and fee-based services. The Company's markets are located east of U.S. Route 250 and extend from northeast of Richmond to the Chesapeake Bay in central Virginia and across the James River from Colonial Heights to southeastern Virginia. It has four primary market areas: Northern Neck, Middle Peninsula, Capital or suburbs of Richmond and Southern. The Company's Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula regions are in the eastern coastal plain of Virginia. The Company's Capital region is comprised of Hanover, Henrico, King William counties and Colonial Heights which are emerging suburbs of Richmond. The Company's Southern region is comprised of New Kent, Surry, Sussex, and Southampton counties. The Company provides lending and credit services to customers including mortgage, commercial and consumer loans. A substantial portion of the loan portfolio is represented by mortgage loans in the Company's market area. It competes with national and regional financial institutions, savings associations and other independent community banks, as well as credit unions, mutual funds and life insurance companies. The Company is subject to the supervision of, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
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