Company Analysis

C&F Financial Corporation (CFFI)

Nasdaq: CFFI · State Commercial Banks · Toano, VA · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade5.8
◀ Past 6.9● Present 5.2▶ Future 5.0

The grade of C&F Financial Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.8/10
◀ Past6.940% of the headline
● Present5.235% of the headline
▶ Future5.025% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.9/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 78th percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

C&F Financial Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+6% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 45th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

C&F Financial Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $89 million in fiscal 2016 to $151 million in fiscal 2025, up 6% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span6.0%bottom 6% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 39% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak3.3%top 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 2.7% a year. 35% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 16 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 71st percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, C&F Financial Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 35% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 16 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 11% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.2/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.7/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 10%: 10¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 91%: owes 91¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 57th percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, C&F Financial Corporation earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 91 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.9% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 27% of its family
  • return on equitytop 42% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 30% of 155 in its family; net margin 17.7%.

weight 33% of this tense · 30th percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

C&F Financial Corporation's standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $151 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 30% by size; a net margin of 17.7% ranks in the bottom 31%; revenue growth of 14.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 30% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$151Mbottom 30% of its family
  • net margin17.7%bottom 31% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth14.3%bottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.3/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 27% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.

weight 22% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

C&F Financial Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Cherry, Thomas F (PRESIDENT & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-01-23, 7.8 years (top 50% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10.7 years (top 16%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 14%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge2 in three years among 17 peopletop 14% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed10.7 yearstop 16% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record7.8 yearstop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.0/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 32% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

C&F Financial Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $79 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 47% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 14.6% of revenue (bottom 18%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets2.9%bottom 47% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue14.6%bottom 18% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 41% of 152 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

C&F Financial Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 14.3% a year over the last three filed years against 6% over all 10, speeding up (top 19% of its family); the newest year grew 8.5% (top 32%); capital spending grew -11.8% a year (bottom 27%) (its annual reports). C&F Financial Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+8.3 points a yeartop 19% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth8.5%top 32% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-11.8%bottom 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 42% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 58th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

C&F Financial Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $151 million in fiscal 2025 came in 7.5% below the $164 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 23% of its family); net income of $27 million against a prior three-year average of $24 million (bottom 45%); a net margin of 17.7% against 20.7% before (top 49%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-7.5%top 23% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+11%bottom 45% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.0 pointstop 49% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CFFI · research, not advice