CITY HOLDING COMPANY
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $143.46, CITY HOLDING COMPANY (CHCO) is priced for 15.1% return on equity. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Scale in a small place is the whole business model here: City National runs 96 banking offices across West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and southeastern Ohio, and the 10-K reports roughly ⟦13% of the deposit market share in the counties of West Virginia where its bank branches are located⟧ and about 24% in the eastern Kentucky counties it serves. • The earnings engine is one variable wide, and it is a variable the bank does not set: interest rate policy, which the 10-K flags with unusual cando
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224 institutional managers reported holding CHCO in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 69% of the company; the top 10 hold 49%. 21 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 922k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (9.5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CHCO has cut its share count 8.4% over the past five years, spending $216.94M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting), raised 14 years straight; the current rate is $3.32 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $125.97M in dividends and $110.60M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CHCO over the trailing three years: 2024: 6 buys totaling $125k; 2025: 2 buys totaling $271k. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CHCO's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-04 | +1.6% | -5.8% |
| 2023-11-04 | +0.8% | +9.7% |
| 2024-02-29 | -0.7% | +4.3% |
| 2024-05-09 | +1.8% | +4.7% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CHCO's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-22 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-28 (items 8.01); 2026-05-28 (items 5.02); 2026-04-29 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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