Crazy Woman Holding Your Money?

by Fred Fuld III

Supposed you asked someone where they put there money and they said Crazy Woman, would you think they were crazy?

Well maybe they wouldn’t be.

There is actually a bank holding company called Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp Incorporated (CRZY), which you can buy stock in, by the way. It was founded in 1936 and is based in Buffalo, Wyoming.

How’s that for stock market trivia?

The stock trades over-the-counter on the Pink Sheets.

It trades at a very reasonable 6.11 times trailing earnings and pays a dividend withy a forward yield of 1.48%.

The company posted the third-best performance in their 87-year history, with an annualized return on equity (ROE) of 10.41%.

The net interest margin at September 30, 2023 of 3.51% is above the state average of 3.31%. 

As of September 30, 2023, the Tier 1 Leverage Ratio was 9.37%, which substantially exceeds the current definition for “well-capitalized” institutions. Also as of that date, the bank had no foreclosed or repossessed assets.

Would I be crazy for owning Crazy Woman shares?

If you want more investment trivia, check out the book.

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.

This Day Today in Business & Investment History: January 4

by Fred Fuld III

The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published in 1875.

The Stock Exchange in Vienna closes due to bank failures, contributing to the severity of the Great Depression in Europe in 1929.

Blackberry phones officially end service after a year-long transition to a software-based business model in 2022.

Podcast: Financial History, Investment Trivia and Antique Stock Certificates

Available at Stocks for Beginners

When and why did the CIA create a venture capital fund? How did a failed stockbroker become a literary giant? Fred Fuld III from Wall Street News Network discusses Financial History, Investment Trivia and Antique Stock Certificates.

Some of the topics covered in the discussion include:

– The Venture Capital Fund that the CIA created 

– The stock run by the FBI that had a box of clothes as its only asset 

– Bitcoin trivia 

– The first women-owned stock brokerage firm in 1870 

– Celebrity Stockbrokers including Jules Verne 

– The Skirt Length Index 

– The first marijuana stock 

You can listed to the podcast or read the transcript at Stocks for Beginners.