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California BanCorp

BCAL on Nasdaq. California BanCorp sells loans and deposit accounts to businesses and individuals. Market value $698m.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Some use the latest annual report instead, as marked. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

Should I look at this?

Not a fit for our list right now

Why it could be worth it

Nothing stands out yet.

What to watch out for

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Return on equity
five annual reports to December 2025
Not reported

We don't have this figure for this company.

Price to book
quarterly report to June 2026
1.2×

What you pay for each dollar of net assets: $1.19.

Earnings yield
past 12 months to June 2026
8.6%

Profit per $100 you pay: $8.64.

Quality score: not known. Price score: 95 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$21.66 a share, 37% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $15.85 to $22.41.

Dividend: 0.5% a year

Paid in its latest year

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

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202320242025
Revenue
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Operating margin
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Debt to equity
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Shares outstanding
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Health checks

  • Free cash flow positiveDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
  • Accounting checksDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
  • DebtDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
  • Revenue growth, five yearsUnknown
  • Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Profit: $14 million, about the same as a year ago.
  • Spare cash over the past 12 months: $59 million, down from $62 million.
  • 1% fewer shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit more of the company.
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024-$16m
December 2024$17m
March 2025$17m
June 2025$14m
September 2025$16m
December 2025$16m
March 2026$14m
June 2026$14m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
13 March 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
6 November 2026

Who owns it

None of the long-term investors we follow own it. 146 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26

Sold out this quarter

Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

7 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

In the last 12 months, 2 insiders bought $513,239 of shares on the open market. 4 sold $2m.

  • Muller Frank L.
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    4 September 2026
    Shares
    450
    Price
    $22.13
    Value
    $9,959
  • Machado Lester
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    31 July 2026
    Shares
    7,500
    Price
    $21.19
    Value
    $158,948
  • Hernandez Richard
    President
    Sold
    Date
    8 May 2026
    Shares
    17,000
    Price
    $19.12
    Value
    $325,040
  • Rainer David I
    Executive Chairman, Director
    Sold
    Date
    7 May 2026
    Shares
    75,000
    Price
    $19.00
    Value
    $1m
  • Carandang Jean
    Bank Chief Financial Officer
    Sold
    Date
    6 March 2026
    Shares
    8,000
    Price
    $17.90
    Value
    $143,200
  • Volk David J.
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    3 February 2026
    Shares
    27,000
    Price
    $18.64
    Value
    $503,280

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

None of the warning signs we check for were found.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 13 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 7 Aug 2026 and 4 later 8-Ks.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.

Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.

The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

  • What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
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  • The three things that would make this a mistake
  • Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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