Top 5 Stock Picks of Anton Schutz’s Mendon Capital

3. Equity Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQBK)

Mendon Capital’s Stake Value: $15.5 million

Percentage of Mendon Capital’s 13F Portfolio: 5.28%

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 7

Equity Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQBK) has been a member of Anton Schutz’s Mendon Capital portfolio over the past five years. Approximately 464,611 shares of Equity Bancshares were held by the firm as of September. The company is engaged in providing banking, financial, and mortgage banking services to individual and corporate customers. Equity Bancshares offers a small dividend yield of 0.24%. However, its share price soared close to 80% in the last twelve months, thanks to improving financial numbers.

Equity Bancshares is a small-cap with a market cap of $488 million. The number of long hedge funds’ positions was at 7 as of June.