C & F Financial Corp
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +82.9% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,029.77▲ +103.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $72.59 | $71.25 | $68.19 | $58.27 | $51.19 | $37.11 | $55.33 | $53.21 | $58.00 | $49.85 | $39.00 | $39.74 | $45.67 | $38.94 | $26.60 | $22.31 | $19.00 | |
Seven formulas applied to what the company reported. None of them predicts a price — each answers what the stock would be worth if its assumption held. The assumption is printed next to every number, because it is the assumption that produces the result.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value — the two ceilings Graham proposed. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 6.5% a year plus a 2.0% dividend — Lynch adds the yield to the growth rate, so a payer is not priced like a company that returns nothing. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.4 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 10.1 across the years on record for this company itself. Answers whether it is cheap against its own past, which a whole sector trading low cannot flatter.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| GTERAGloba Terra Acquisition Corp | $10.40 | 23.6x | — | — | — | $307.43M |
| JENAJENA ACQUISITION Corp II | $10.47 | — | — | — | — | $303.37M |
| ITHAITHAX Acquisition Corp III |
C&F Financial Corporation operates as a bank holding company for Citizens and Farmers Bank that provides banking services to individuals and businesses. It operates through three segments: Community Banking, Mortgage Banking, and Consumer Finance. The Community Banking segment offers various banking services, such as checking and savings deposit accounts; and business, real estate, development, mortgage, home equity, and installment loans. This segment also provides ATMs, Internet and mobile banking, peer-to-peer payment capabilities, debit cards, safe deposit box rentals, notary public, electronic transfer, and other customary bank services, as well as wealth management services; and engages in owning equity interests in an independent insurance agency, and a full-service title and settlement agency. The Mortgage Banking segment offers various residential mortgage loans, which are originated for sale to investors in the secondary mortgage market; originates conventional mortgage loans, mortgage loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration, and mortgage loans guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Veterans Administration. This segment also provides mortgage loan origination functions as a service to third party mortgage lenders and other community banks; and ancillary mortgage loan production services to third parties for residential appraisals. The Consumer Finance segment offers automobile financing through lending programs to serve customers in both the prime and non-prime markets. C&F Financial Corporation was founded in 1927 and is based in Toano, Virginia.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
| P/E |
| 10.1x |
| 8.8x |
| 11.9x |
| 9.9x |
| 7.0x |
| 6.4x |
| 6.1x |
| 10.1x |
| 10.3x |
| 30.9x |
| 12.8x |
| 10.6x |
| 11.1x |
| 10.9x |
| 8.0x |
| 7.2x |
| 10.0x |
| 13.2x |
| P/S | 1.5x | 1.7x | 1.8x | 1.8x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.0x | 1.8x | 1.6x | 1.7x | 1.5x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.5x | — | 0.8x | 0.7x | — |
| P/B | 1.0x | 0.9x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 1.4x | — | 0.9x | 0.7x | — |
| EPS | $8.29 | $6.01 | $6.92 | $8.29 | $7.95 | $6.06 | $5.47 | $5.15 | $1.88 | $3.89 | $3.68 | $3.59 | $4.19 | $4.86 | $3.72 | $2.24 | $1.44 |
| Dividend yield | 2.77% | 2.53% | 2.47% | 2.58% | 2.81% | 3.09% | 4.10% | 2.69% | 2.65% | 2.29% | 2.59% | 3.13% | 2.99% | 2.54% | 2.77% | 3.80% | 4.48% | 5.58% |
| Payout | 27.38% | 22.20% | 29.28% | 25.43% | 19.78% | 19.87% | 25.08% | 27.24% | 27.38% | 70.74% | 33.16% | 33.15% | 33.15% | 27.68% | 22.22% | 27.15% | 44.64% | 73.61% |
| Profit margin | 15.37% | 19.05% | 15.58% | 18.54% | 23.77% | 21.20% | 16.01% | 16.85% | 15.15% | 5.63% | 11.65% | 11.63% | 11.66% | 14.18% | 16.79% | 12.87% | 8.15% | — |
| ROE | 10.88% | 10.25% | 8.76% | 10.88% | 14.90% | 13.63% | 11.41% | 11.44% | 11.86% | 4.64% | 9.67% | 9.56% | 9.99% | 12.76% | 16.00% | 13.50% | 8.74% | 6.22% |
Median, not average: a single year of near-zero profit produces a P/E of 400 and would drag an average on its own. P/E years above 200x are left out, the same cut the fair price uses — so this median matches the “its own history” method below. Price and EPS have no median: they are series that grow.
Dividend growing 5.2% a year against a 7.0% required return, taken from the stock’s beta. The only method anchored on what the company pays rather than what it reports.
Not the average of the seven numbers above. Four of the seven start from the same earnings per share — Graham, Lynch, sector multiples and its own history — so averaging all seven would let one input count four times and drown out the others. Instead each family produces one number, and the fair price is the average of the families that answered. A family with two working formulas contributes their average, not two votes.
5 methods answered, across 2 families.
Every formula reads the same reported statements and they can be wrong together. The margin is room for that.
+13.6% from the average.
These are models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. Change one assumption and the number changes with it — that is a property of valuation, not a defect of this page.
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| $307.89M |
| VHCPVine Hill Capital Investment Corp. II | $10.05 | — | — | — | — | $308.2M |
| TMTSSpartacus Acquisition Corp. II | $10.07 | — | — | — | — | $308.81M |