National Bankshares Inc
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.
None of the investors we track reported a position in NKSH.
▲ +13.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,520.26▲ +52.0%
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 | $33.53 | $28.71 | $32.35 | $40.30 | $35.84 | $31.31 | $44.93 | $36.43 | $45.45 | $43.45 | $35.54 | $30.39 | $36.89 | $32.39 | $27.92 | $31.49 | $28.29 | |
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 0.1% a year plus a 3.7% 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 13.7 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.
Cash flow growing 0.1% 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.
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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| DMAADrugs Made In America Acquisition Corp. | $10.75 | 59.7x | — | — | — | $260.98M |
| BRBIBRBI BR Partners S.A. | $9.92 | 24.8x | 1.7x | 10.58% | 19.74% | $260.48M |
| TROOTroops, Inc. /Cayman Islands/ |
National Bankshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for the National Bank of Blacksburg that provides retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, non-profits, and local governments. The company accepts interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing demand deposit accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, health savings accounts, and individual retirement accounts. Its loan products include commercial non-real estate loans, including commercial and agricultural loans; commercial and consumer real estate loans; residential real estate loans; home equity loans; various consumer loans, such as credit cards, automobile, and other consumer loans; and public sector and IDA loans, as well as loans for the construction of commercial and residential properties. The company also provides business and consumer debit and credit cards; letters of credit, night depository, safe deposit boxes, utility payment services, and automatic funds transfer; wealth management, trust, and estate services; non-deposit investment and insurance products; and telephone, mobile, and Internet banking services, as well as operates automated teller machines. The company was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.
| P/E |
| 13.7x |
| 13.5x |
| 23.2x |
| 12.2x |
| 9.3x |
| 10.9x |
| 12.6x |
| 17.0x |
| 15.7x |
| 22.4x |
| 20.2x |
| 15.6x |
| 12.5x |
| 14.5x |
| 12.7x |
| 11.0x |
| 14.1x |
| 13.7x |
| P/S | 4.5x | 3.8x | 4.0x | 4.1x | 4.0x | 4.3x | 4.3x | 6.3x | 5.2x | 7.1x | 6.9x | 5.1x | 4.4x | 5.2x | 4.5x | 3.9x | 4.7x | — |
| P/B | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.9x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.6x | 1.2x | 1.7x | 1.7x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.8x | 1.5x | 1.4x | 1.7x | — |
| EPS | $2.49 | $1.24 | $2.66 | $4.33 | $3.28 | $2.48 | $2.65 | $2.32 | $2.03 | $2.15 | $2.28 | $2.43 | $2.55 | $2.55 | $2.54 | $2.24 | $2.06 |
| Dividend yield | 3.40% | 4.50% | 5.26% | 7.76% | 3.72% | 4.02% | 4.44% | 3.09% | 3.32% | 2.57% | 2.67% | 3.21% | 3.72% | 3.04% | 3.40% | 3.58% | 2.89% | 2.97% |
| Payout | 50.00% | 60.64% | 121.77% | 94.36% | 34.64% | 43.90% | 56.05% | 52.45% | 52.16% | 57.64% | 53.95% | 50.00% | 46.50% | 43.92% | 43.14% | 39.37% | 40.62% | 40.78% |
| Profit margin | 34.86% | 28.48% | 16.81% | 33.64% | 43.64% | 40.51% | 34.86% | 37.52% | 35.18% | 31.48% | 34.05% | 32.84% | 35.12% | 36.35% | 35.78% | 35.81% | 33.61% | 32.94% |
| ROE | 10.17% | 8.56% | 4.87% | 11.17% | 21.14% | 10.63% | 8.01% | 9.51% | 8.49% | 7.62% | 8.38% | 9.20% | 10.17% | 12.19% | 11.82% | 12.48% | 12.05% | 11.73% |
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.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Every formula reads the same reported statements and they can be wrong together. The margin is room for that.
+31.3% 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.
| $2.15 |
| — |
| 5.4x |
| — |
| -47.59% |
| $262.64M |
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