Waterstone Financial, Inc. (WSBF) To Go Ex-Dividend on January 8th

Waterstone Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSBF) announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th,Wall Street Journal reports. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, January 8th will be given a dividend of 0.15 per share by the savings and loans company on Monday, February 3rd. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.60%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, January 8th.

Waterstone Financial has decreased its dividend payment by an average of 9.1% per year over the last three years.

Waterstone Financial Stock Down 0.4 %

Shares of WSBF opened at $13.05 on Monday. The firm has a market cap of $252.82 million, a PE ratio of 17.88 and a beta of 0.65. The company has a quick ratio of 1.36, a current ratio of 1.48 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.64. The company’s fifty day moving average is $14.72 and its two-hundred day moving average is $14.43. Waterstone Financial has a fifty-two week low of $10.60 and a fifty-two week high of $16.86.

Insider Transactions at Waterstone Financial

In other news, Director Stephen J. Schmidt sold 2,687 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $15.80, for a total value of $42,454.60. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 70,078 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,107,232.40. This represents a 3.69 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Insiders have sold a total of 17,544 shares of company stock worth $274,113 in the last three months. 8.30% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Waterstone Financial Company Profile

Waterstone Financial, Inc operates as a bank holding company for WaterStone Bank SSB that provides various financial services to customers in southeastern Wisconsin, the United States. It operates in two segments, Community Banking and Mortgage Banking. The Community Banking segment offers consumer and business banking products and services, such as deposit and transactional solutions, including checking accounts, online banking and bill pay services, money transfer services, as well as credit, debit, and pre-paid cards; investable funds solutions comprising savings, money market deposits, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit; residential mortgages, home equity loans and lines of credit, personal and installment loans, real estate financing, business loans, and business lines of credit; and fixed and variable annuities, insurance products, and trust and investment management accounts.