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Middlebury National Corporation

MDVT
56
Banks - Regional · Financial Services
Price
$46.75
+0.35 (+0.75%)
Market Cap
$40.2M
Winston Score
56
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Middlebury National Corporation is a small regional bank holding company based in Vermont. It provides everyday banking services — like checking accounts, savings accounts, loans, and mortgages — mainly to individuals and small businesses in rural Vermont communities. Its subsidiary, Middlebury National Bank, has served the local area for many decades, making it a familiar institution in the region.

The company earns money the traditional banking way: it takes in deposits and lends that money out at higher interest rates, keeping the difference as profit. It operates entirely within Vermont, making it a very small, community-focused bank with a market cap that rounds to essentially zero at this scale. Its moat comes from long-standing local relationships and community trust, but that same small size is also its biggest risk — it has limited ability to absorb economic downturns, rising loan defaults, or pressure from larger regional and national banks competing for the same customers.

Winston Score History

Share count broadly stable

0.3% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 862K (2021) → 860K (2025)

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Quality

Gross Margin
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
14.1%
Healthy — 14.1% operating margin
ROCE
2.3%
Weak — 2.3% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-3.0%
Shrinking sales (-3.0% YoY)
EPS YoY
-16.1%
Earnings shrinking (-16.1% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
100%
Turns 100% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
17.7%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (17.7%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.13
Conservative — low debt load (0.13)
Interest Cover
100.00x
Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
12.8x
Attractive valuation — P/E 12.8

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Dividend Yield
2.57%
Moderate income — 2.57% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend Growth
+13.9%
Dividend growing fast (13.9% YoY)

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