Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Stock Price

We recently had an evaluation done on our holding company stock. Keep in mind that the Bank is a subsidiary of Oak Financial, Inc., the holding company. The evaluation was done by the accounting firm WIPFLI. Their formula for arriving at the value is book value of stock multiplied by 150% (normal premium paid by an acquirer for control of a community bank) less a discount of 25% due to lack of marketability for the stock and because most transactions would involve minority stock interests.

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