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Added to YB: 2025-08-21

Pitch date: 2025-08-18

LSBK [bullish]

Lake Shore Bancorp, Inc.

+25.03%

current return

Author Info

Lone Elm Capital looks for undervalued securities, and generally am long-only. The situations usually take a while to develop, and winners may take 1-3 years to play out. Losers become apparent much more quickly. In a good year, I might find a couple good situations (and several bad ones). I tend to buy mid-to-high single digit positions, scaling in as I gain conviction. Sign up for the newsletter.

Company Info

Lake Shore Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Lake Shore Bank that provides banking products and services in New York.

Market Cap

$124.6M

Pitch Price

$12.56

Price Target

N/A

Dividend

2.27%

EV/EBITDA

N/A

P/E

14.56

EV/Sales

N/A

Sector

Banks

Category

special_situation

Show full summary:
Quick Idea: $LSBK

LSBK: Small regional bank post-demutualization at 0.7x BV ($17.89). $100M mkt cap, $75M cash. Activist Stilwell (9.4% stake) targeting cost cuts in inefficient bank (72% efficiency ratio, 6% ROE). Risk: 70% of assets in loans, 50%+ in CRE. Buybacks likely in 1yr, merger in 3yrs.

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