Margin expansion, not loan growth headlines, is the story at Lake City Bank's parent: net interest margin rose 8 basis points to 3.58% as deposit costs fell faster than asset yields, delivering record net income. Revenue came in missing expectations, but the margin trend is what matters while peers flag funding pressure.
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Lakeland Financial reports at 7:00 AM ET, with consensus at $1.088 EPS on $73.74 million in revenue from five analysts. Three straight beats have set the bar for this Indiana lender, and the year-ago quarter was the last time it came up short.
- 2BUSEFirst Busey$0.26/sh$21.5M
- 3GEHCGE HealthCare$0.04/sh$18.1M
- 4COKECoca-Cola Consolidated$0.25/sh$14.1M
- 5LKFNLakeland Financial$0.52/sh$12.9M
Concentrix leads today's payouts with $22.6 million going to shareholders on November 3, at 37 cents a share. Four more companies, including GE HealthCare and Coca-Cola Consolidated, round out roughly $79 million in cash heading out the door over the next three weeks.
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