Mercantile Bank Shares Rise on 4Q Revenue Growth, Dividend Bump

Dow Jones
2025/01/22
 

By Katherine Hamilton

 

Mercantile Bank shares rose Tuesday after the bank recorded revenue growth for its fourth quarter and initiated a higher quarterly dividend.

The stock advanced 3% to $45.61. It is up 11% over the past 12 months.

The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based bank said fourth-quarter profit was $19.6 million, or $1.22 a share, down from $20 million, or $1.25 a share, in the same period of 2023. Quarterly revenue rose about 2.8% to $58.5 million.

Mercantile's annual revenue rose about 2.6% in all of 2024 to $231 million, up from $226 million in 2023. Its annual profit fell to about $79.6 million, down from $82.2 million in 2023.

Local deposits grew more than 20% in 2024, which helped fund loan growth and reduce wholesale funding sources, Chief Executive Ray Reitsma said. This helped the bank in its effort to lower its loan-to-deposit ratio, which rose from 2021 to 2023 as deposits shrank following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Noninterest income for 2024 grew 26% year over year due to increases in income from mortgage banking, service charges and payroll services.

The company's board also said it would initiate a quarterly dividend of 37 cents, which would be an annual yield of about 3.3% based on Friday's closing price of $44.21. The dividend will be payable on March 19 to shareholders of record as of March 7. The new dividend is a 2.8% increase from the previous quarter.

 

Write to Katherine Hamilton at katherine.hamilton@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

January 21, 2025 12:44 ET (17:44 GMT)

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