PARK NATIONAL CORPORATION
At today's price, PARK NATIONAL CORPORATION (PRK) is priced for 14.4% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Park National is a conservatively run community bank, recently enlarged by its all-stock merger with First Citizens Bancshares, now with about $13 billion in assets across Ohio, Kentucky, and the Carolinas. Its edge is a sticky, low-cost deposit base and a disciplined credit culture. - Profitability and credit are strong: a net interest margin near 4.80%, net charge-offs of just 0.12% of loans, and a recent return on equity around 13%. A bank like this is valued off price-to-book, and at about
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249 institutional managers reported holding PRK in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 53% of the company; the top 10 hold 44%. 22 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 534k shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (5.7 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.
PRK's share count grew 6.4% over the past five years even with $59.20M spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 2 years straight; the current rate is $5.53 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $221.39M in dividends and $25.29M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at PRK over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 18 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.
PRK's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-02 | -3.3% | -15.6% |
| 2023-11-02 | -2.4% | +21.7% |
| 2024-02-24 | +5.2% | +5.2% |
| 2024-05-03 | +2.5% | +2.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
PRK's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-22 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-27 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-24 (items 2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-02-09 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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