Company Analysis

PCB Bancorp (PCB)

Nasdaq: PCB · State Commercial Banks · Los Angeles, CA · filing with the SEC since 2008
Grade4.7
◀ Past 3.0● Present 5.3▶ Future 6.7

The grade of PCB Bancorp

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.7/10
◀ Past3.040% of the headline
● Present5.335% of the headline
▶ Future6.725% 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?

3.0/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
0.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

3 warning events since 2017; the latest 2025-07-24.

weight 45% of this tense · 2nd percentile among 165 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

PCB Bancorp's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2025-05-23); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2025-07-24); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2025-05-13) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
2.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 26th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

PCB Bancorp's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2 million in fiscal 2016 to $3 million in fiscal 2025, up 3% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 13% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span3.0%bottom 1% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak12.5%bottom 19% 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 1.8% a year. 37% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 10 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, PCB Bancorp's diluted share count shrank about 1.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 37% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 10 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $418 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 16% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 43% 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?

5.3/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 10%: 10¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 88%: owes 88¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 161 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, PCB Bancorp earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 88 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.4% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 32% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 49% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 28% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 35% of 155 in its family; net margin 1291.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 35th percentile among 155 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

PCB Bancorp's standing among 155 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 1% by size; a net margin of 1291.9% ranks in the top 1%; revenue growth of 3.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 5% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.9Mbottom 1% of its family
  • net margin1291.9%top 1% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth3.1%bottom 5% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
6.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 40% of 150 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2018.

weight 22% of this tense · 60th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

PCB Bancorp's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kim, Henry (PRESIDENT, CEO & DIRECTOR, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-08-09, 8.3 years (top 45% of its family); the 4 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.3 years (top 38%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 4 people in charge now (top 38%; 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 charge1 in three years among 4 peopletop 38% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed8.3 yearstop 38% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record8.3 yearstop 45% 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?

6.7/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
8.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 13% of 142 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 87th percentile among 142 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

PCB Bancorp's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $207 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 6.3% of its assets as net cash, top 24% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 841.5% of revenue (top 1%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets6.3%top 24% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue841.5%top 1% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
2.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 29% of 152 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 29th percentile among 152 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

PCB Bancorp's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 3.1% a year over the last three filed years against 3% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 25% of its family); the newest year grew 4.5% (bottom 50%); capital spending grew -26.2% a year (bottom 13%) (its annual reports). PCB Bancorp 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+0.1 points a yearbottom 25% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.5%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-26.2%bottom 13% 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
8.5/10

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

top 15% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 85th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

PCB Bancorp's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3 million in fiscal 2025 came in 2% above the $3 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 12% of its family); net income of $37 million against a prior three-year average of $31 million (top 33%); a net margin of more than its whole revenue against more than its whole revenue before (top 1%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace2.0%top 12% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+23%top 33% of its family
  • net margin against its prior averageup more than 100 pointstop 1% 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 PCB · research, not advice