Affinity Bancshares Inc. Common Stock (MD) (AFBI)

FairStock Score: 50/100 — MIXED

Key Financials

Current Price$23.00
Market Cap$136M
P/E Ratio16.79
ROE2.05%
Dividend Yield—%
SectorFinancial Services

AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

Affinity Bancshares is a very small bank holding company—79 employees—operating Affinity Bank and offering savings, checking, CDs, IRAs, and commercial/residential loans. Small community banks can be good businesses if they underwrite carefully and earn a healthy spread, but the supplied data do not include CET1, net interest margin, efficiency ratio, loan-loss reserves or nonperforming loans; combined ratio is also not in the data. That matters because banking is a leveraged, credit-sensitive business. The quarter labeled 2026-Q1 showed $8.1M of revenue and $2.3M of net income, a 28.14% margin. That looks profitable, but FairStock’s calculations as of the 2026-08-10 close show ROE of only 2.05% and ROCE of 0.53%. For a bank, ROE is the key scorecard, and 2.05% is very weak. Meanwhile, the shares trade at a P/B of 2.25 and a P/E of 16.79, which is rich for such a low return. The PEG ratio of 0.68 looks attractive, but only if the supplied 24.74% profit growth is durable; revenue growth is just 3.82%, and the growth period is not identified in the data. Piotroski is 6/9, mildly positive, and beta is -0.04. No Lynch category is assigned because only 0 years of filed annual results are available and three are needed. At $23.00, near the top of the 52-week range of $18.35–$23.00, the market already assumes improvement. I would want either a lower price-to-book or evidence that the 2.05% ROE is temporarily depressed before calling this a Graham-style bargain.

In plain English: Affinity Bancshares is a small bank holding company that takes deposits and makes loans through Affinity Bank. It is profitable—the quarter labeled 2026-Q1 showed $8.1M in revenue and $2.3M in net income—but the return it earns on shareholder money looks very low. At $23.00, the shares are near the top of their 52-week range and look fully priced rather than cheap.

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Data as of 2026-08-10 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

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