Community Financial System Inc
Community Financial System Inc (CBU) is listed on NYSE and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Syracuse, United States and has 2,853 employees. The company is worth $3.28B and trades at 14.1x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $823.02M in fiscal 2025, up 9.7% from the year before. Net income was $210.46M. The share price is 12.3% below its 52-week high of $71.11. It pays a dividend yielding 3.05%, and has raised its annual dividend for 28 years in a row in our records. 3 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $12.86M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -14.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $985.87▼ -1.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $57.44 | $61.68 | $52.11 | $62.95 | $74.48 | $62.31 | $70.94 | $58.30 | $53.75 | $61.79 | $39.94 | $38.13 | $39.68 | $27.36 | $27.80 | $27.77 | $19.31 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 5.2% a year plus a 3.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 18.0 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.2% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividend growing 6.3% a year against a 7.9% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PFSIPennyMac Financial Services, Inc. | $63.36 | 8.2x | 0.8x | 1.89% | 9.38% | $3.29B |
| AAMIAcadian Asset Management Inc. | $92.79 | 33.7x | 35.8x | 0.43% | 106.77% | $3.29B |
| SBCFSeacoast Banking Corp of Florida | $33.65 | 21.7x | 1.2x | 2.26% | 6.07% | $3.26B |
| PRKPark National Corp |
| 18.0x |
| 14.5x |
| 17.9x |
| 21.3x |
| 18.2x |
| 21.4x |
| 20.2x |
| 22.0x |
| 18.0x |
| 17.7x |
| 26.6x |
| 18.2x |
| 17.2x |
| 20.5x |
| 14.2x |
| 13.8x |
| 14.7x |
| 15.3x |
| P/S | 4.7x | 3.7x | 4.3x | 3.9x | 4.9x | 6.5x | 5.6x | 6.2x | 5.3x | 5.3x | 6.4x | 4.7x | 4.3x | 4.7x | 3.3x | 3.6x | 0.0x | 2.5x |
| P/B | 1.6x | 1.5x | 1.8x | 1.6x | 2.2x | 1.9x | 1.6x | 2.0x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 2.3x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 1.8x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 0.0x | 1.1x |
| EPS | $3.97 | $3.44 | $2.45 | $3.46 | $3.48 | $3.08 | $3.23 | $3.24 | $3.03 | $2.32 | $2.19 | $2.22 | $1.94 | $1.93 | $2.01 | $1.89 | $1.26 |
| Dividend yield | 2.95% | 3.24% | 2.95% | 3.42% | 2.76% | 2.28% | 2.66% | 2.23% | 2.47% | 2.46% | 2.85% | 4.18% | 3.04% | 2.77% | 3.87% | 3.60% | 3.38% | 4.56% |
| Payout | 52.25% | 46.85% | 52.91% | 72.65% | 50.29% | 48.85% | 53.90% | 48.92% | 44.44% | 43.56% | 75.86% | 76.26% | 52.25% | 56.70% | 54.92% | 49.75% | 49.74% | 69.84% |
| Profit margin | 24.54% | 25.57% | 24.32% | 18.61% | 27.50% | 30.56% | 27.59% | 28.66% | 29.63% | 29.09% | 24.17% | 24.54% | 25.14% | 23.17% | 23.38% | 24.49% | 23.41% | 16.64% |
| ROE | 9.11% | 10.49% | 10.35% | 7.77% | 12.12% | 9.03% | 7.83% | 9.11% | 9.84% | 9.22% | 8.66% | 8.00% | 9.25% | 9.00% | 8.54% | 9.44% | 10.43% | 7.33% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+34.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 16.4x |
| 1.9x |
| 2.40% |
| 12.59% |
| $3.32B |
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