How to buy Pacific Mercantile Bancorp stock

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp is a banks-regional business based in the US. Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares (PMBC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

How to buy shares in Pacific Mercantile Bancorp

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Pacific Mercantile Bancorp. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: PMBC. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Pacific Mercantile Bancorp reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp share price

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Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-24.

52-week range	USD$2.95 - USD$7.48
50-day moving average	USD$6.0418
200-day moving average	USD$4.6201
Wall St. target price	USD$7.25
PE ratio	21.0571
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.35

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Pacific Mercantile Bancorp financials

Revenue TTM	USD$49.3 million
Operating margin TTM	27.15%
Gross profit TTM	USD$49.3 million
Return on assets TTM	0.56%
Return on equity TTM	5.42%
Profit margin	16.92%
Book value	$6.71
Market capitalisation	USD$174.4 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares

There are currently 99,976 Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares held short by investors – that's known as Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's "short interest". This figure is 14.9% up from 86,980 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares can be evaluated.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares traded daily (recently around 27541.597796143). Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's SIR currently stands at 3.63. In other words for every 100,000 Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3630 shares are currently held short.

However Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares, or, against the total number of tradable Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0051% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares, roughly 5 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Pacific Mercantile Bancorp.

Find out more about how you can short Pacific Mercantile Bancorp stock.

Have Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's shares ever split?

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 17 April 2000. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares which in turn could have impacted Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's share price.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's shares have ranged in value from as little as $2.95 up to $7.48. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's is 0.8794. This would suggest that Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp overview

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp operates as the holding company for Pacific Mercantile Bank that provides a range of commercial banking products and services to middle market businesses, professional firms, and individuals. The company's deposit products include checking accounts, interest-bearing term deposit accounts, savings and money market deposits, and time deposits. It also offers various loan products, such as commercial loans and credit lines, accounts receivable and inventory financing, small business administration guaranteed business loans, owner-occupied commercial real estate loans, working capital lines of credit and asset based lending, growth capital loans, equipment financing, letters of credit, and corporate credit cards. In addition, the company provides cash and treasury management solutions, automated clearinghouse payment and wire solutions, fraud protection services, remote deposit capture services, courier services, and online banking services; and letters of credit and import/export financing services. It operates eight offices in Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Bernardino counties, Southern California. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 2.71% of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp shares are held by insiders and 74.363% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Pacific Mercantile Bancorp?

  Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Pacific Mercantile Bancorp based?

  Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's address is: 949 South Coast Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States, 92626

• What is Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's ISIN number?

  Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's international securities identification number is: US6945521002

• What is Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's CUSIP number?

  Pacific Mercantile Bancorp's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 694552100