Timberland Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSBK) Announces Quarterly Dividend of $0.25

Timberland Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSBK) declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 28th,Wall Street Journal reports. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be paid a dividend of 0.25 per share by the savings and loans company on Friday, February 28th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.33%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 14th.

Timberland Bancorp has raised its dividend by an average of 4.9% per year over the last three years and has raised its dividend annually for the last 12 consecutive years.

Timberland Bancorp Trading Up 1.7 %

Shares of NASDAQ:TSBK traded up $0.49 during midday trading on Tuesday, reaching $30.01. The company had a trading volume of 4,207 shares, compared to its average volume of 9,730. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $31.19 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $30.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08, a quick ratio of 0.97 and a current ratio of 0.97. The firm has a market cap of $239.18 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.00 and a beta of 0.68. Timberland Bancorp has a 1-year low of $23.93 and a 1-year high of $33.98.

Timberland Bancorp (NASDAQ:TSBK) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, January 27th. The savings and loans company reported $0.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Timberland Bancorp had a return on equity of 10.09% and a net margin of 22.92%.

Insider Activity at Timberland Bancorp

In other news, COO Jonathan Arthur Fischer sold 1,790 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, November 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $33.02, for a total transaction of $59,105.80. Following the sale, the chief operating officer now owns 4,550 shares in the company, valued at approximately $150,241. This represents a 28.23 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Insiders have sold a total of 4,111 shares of company stock valued at $135,819 over the last quarter. 3.70% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

About Timberland Bancorp

Timberland Bancorp, Inc operates as the bank holding company for Timberland Bank that provides various community banking services in Washington. It offers various deposit products, including money market deposit, checking, and regular savings accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. The company also provides one-to four-family residential, multi-family, and commercial real estate loans; and construction lending products, such as custom and owner/builder, speculative one- to four-family, commercial, multi-family, land development, and land development.