# Meta Financial Group (CASH.US)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/CASH

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:27:14.369Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: $72.12 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low $83.63 per share, central $104.53 per share, high $139.38 per share. Buy at or below the central value $104.53 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:27:14.369Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 11.8% at the stated quote. About 11.8% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; US 10-year bond 5.1% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 10

- Required profitable years: 9

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.72×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: $160K

- FY2017: $167K

- FY2018: $116K

- FY2019: $95M

- FY2020: $102M

- FY2021: $139M

- FY2022: $149M

- FY2023: $141M

- FY2024: $182M

- FY2025: $185M

### moat: fail

- Tangible common book per share

- return on tangible common equity below 5% in more than one year

- median cost/income ratio exceeds 65%

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 23.5%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 0.1%

- Cost / income, median: 66.0%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 0.1%

- FY2017: 0.1%

- FY2018: 0.0%

- FY2019: 19.8%

- FY2020: 20.8%

- FY2021: 26.3%

- FY2022: 49.9%

- FY2023: 48.8%

- FY2024: 36.6%

- FY2025: 33.8%

### economics: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 10.6%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: $9.85

- Ending book value per share: $23.28

Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 9.1%

- FY2017: -2.3%

- FY2018: 19.9%

- FY2019: 6.5%

- FY2020: 14.0%

- FY2021: 19.0%

- FY2022: -37.5%

- FY2023: 7.3%

- FY2024: 85.3%

- FY2025: 19.2%

### management: pass

- Tangible common book per share

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 1.4%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: -7.6%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 1.4%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -7.6%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 2.85×

- Book value created per share: $13.43

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: $4.70

Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations.

- FY2015: 100

- FY2016: 125

- FY2017: 137

- FY2018: 151

- FY2019: 186

- FY2020: 171

- FY2021: 156

- FY2022: 143

- FY2023: 132

- FY2024: 124

- FY2025: 115

### accounting: fail

- credit provisions persistently exceed same-year peers

- Financial accounting warning count: 1

- Deposits, annualized growth: 13.5%

- Known restatement years: 0

- Years loan growth exceeded twice deposit growth: 2

- Years credit losses exceeded peer median: 4

## Holders

- [Francis Chou](https://gigainvestors.com/ca): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

## Price story

Down 21% since Feb 2026 · net income +2%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:58:27.570Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 3.5% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income +2%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/907471/000090747125000116/cash-20250930.htm; observed 2025-11-25.

- FY2016: $160K 

- FY2017: $167K 

- FY2018: $116K 

- FY2019: $95M 

- FY2020: $102M 

- FY2021: $139M 

- FY2022: $149M 

- FY2023: $141M 

- FY2024: $182M 

- FY2025: $185M 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in regional banking; annual sales are USD 839.9 million.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/907471/000090747125000116/cash-20250930.htm#000090747125000116 (filed 2025-11-25); FY2025: revenue 839894000.

### Why customers stay

It earns 23.5% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2025-11-25); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.0005951487407385389],[2017,0.0005887127770235724],[2018,0.0003121624797724246],[2019,0.19812980008207773],[2020,0.20772454457592568],[2021,0.26323862474340814],[2022,0.4987669647200926],[2023,0.488083091513418],[2024,0.365735778811053],[2025,0.33815910813253836]]; median 0.2354815846596669. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years; bought back USD 163 million of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2025-11-25); Dividend observations: [[2016,4389000],[2017,4839000],[2018,5736000],[2019,7760000],[2020,7100000],[2021,6400000],[2022,5921000],[2023,5426000],[2024,5067000],[2025,4686000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/907471/000090747125000116/cash-20250930.htm (filed 2025-11-25); FY2025: cash repurchases 163047000 USD.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 1.5% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-15); CASH.US SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 1.518 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-15.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 3.5% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2025-11-25); Price 72.12; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 4.716730354500198; discount 0.1; growth 0.03459885809067946. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (USD per share)

- 2016-10: $24.42 per share

- 2016-11: $30.32 per share

- 2016-12: $34.30 per share

- 2017-01: $29.28 per share

- 2017-02: $28.53 per share

- 2017-03: $29.50 per share

- 2017-04: $28.30 per share

- 2017-05: $28.53 per share

- 2017-06: $29.67 per share

- 2017-07: $23.77 per share

- 2017-08: $23.43 per share

- 2017-09: $26.13 per share

- 2017-10: $29.08 per share

- 2017-11: $31.32 per share

- 2017-12: $30.88 per share

- 2018-01: $39.00 per share

- 2018-02: $35.80 per share

- 2018-03: $36.40 per share

- 2018-04: $37.05 per share

- 2018-05: $37.72 per share

- 2018-06: $32.47 per share

- 2018-07: $29.82 per share

- 2018-08: $28.87 per share

- 2018-09: $27.55 per share

- 2018-10: $25.24 per share

- 2018-11: $22.86 per share

- 2018-12: $19.39 per share

- 2019-01: $23.55 per share

- 2019-02: $23.35 per share

- 2019-03: $19.68 per share

- 2019-04: $25.76 per share

- 2019-05: $26.17 per share

- 2019-06: $28.05 per share

- 2019-07: $30.87 per share

- 2019-08: $30.91 per share

- 2019-09: $32.61 per share

- 2019-10: $31.66 per share

- 2019-11: $35.57 per share

- 2019-12: $36.51 per share

- 2020-01: $37.22 per share

- 2020-02: $32.85 per share

- 2020-03: $21.72 per share

- 2020-04: $18.42 per share

- 2020-05: $18.12 per share

- 2020-06: $18.17 per share

- 2020-07: $18.66 per share

- 2020-08: $19.28 per share

- 2020-09: $19.22 per share

- 2020-10: $29.34 per share

- 2020-11: $33.10 per share

- 2020-12: $36.56 per share

- 2021-01: $38.63 per share

- 2021-02: $44.29 per share

- 2021-03: $45.31 per share

- 2021-04: $49.26 per share

- 2021-05: $53.01 per share

- 2021-06: $50.63 per share

- 2021-07: $49.70 per share

- 2021-08: $49.19 per share

- 2021-09: $52.48 per share

- 2021-10: $55.44 per share

- 2021-11: $59.77 per share

- 2021-12: $59.66 per share

- 2022-01: $59.46 per share

- 2022-02: $55.39 per share

- 2022-03: $54.92 per share

- 2022-04: $43.65 per share

- 2022-05: $41.57 per share

- 2022-06: $38.67 per share

- 2022-07: $33.72 per share

- 2022-08: $32.96 per share

- 2022-09: $32.96 per share

- 2022-10: $42.03 per share

- 2022-11: $43.53 per share

- 2022-12: $43.05 per share

- 2023-01: $49.62 per share

- 2023-02: $51.01 per share

- 2023-03: $41.49 per share

- 2023-04: $44.53 per share

- 2023-05: $43.94 per share

- 2023-06: $46.36 per share

- 2023-07: $51.96 per share

- 2023-08: $49.27 per share

- 2023-09: $46.09 per share

- 2023-10: $45.29 per share

- 2023-11: $49.59 per share

- 2023-12: $52.93 per share

- 2024-01: $51.78 per share

- 2024-02: $50.84 per share

- 2024-03: $50.48 per share

- 2024-04: $50.37 per share

- 2024-05: $53.31 per share

- 2024-06: $56.57 per share

- 2024-07: $67.54 per share

- 2024-08: $68.82 per share

- 2024-09: $66.01 per share

- 2024-10: $70.76 per share

- 2024-11: $83.88 per share

- 2024-12: $73.58 per share

- 2025-01: $79.73 per share

- 2025-02: $77.51 per share

- 2025-03: $72.95 per share

- 2025-04: $79.37 per share

- 2025-05: $78.05 per share

- 2025-06: $79.12 per share

- 2025-07: $75.63 per share

- 2025-08: $79.47 per share

- 2025-09: $74.01 per share

- 2025-10: $68.06 per share

- 2025-11: $71.90 per share

- 2025-12: $71.00 per share

- 2026-01: $90.29 per share

- 2026-02: $90.79 per share

- 2026-03: $89.23 per share

- 2026-04: $86.84 per share

- 2026-05: $82.24 per share

- 2026-06: $87.06 per share

- 2026-07: $88.24 per share

- 2026-08: $81.46 per share

- 2026-09: $71.14 per share

- 2026-10: $72.12 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD per share)

- FY2016: low $6.47 per share, central $8.08 per share, high $10.78 per share

- FY2017: low $6.77 per share, central $8.47 per share, high $11.29 per share

- FY2018: low $11.33 per share, central $14.16 per share, high $18.88 per share

- FY2019: low $15.40 per share, central $19.25 per share, high $25.67 per share

- FY2020: low $17.31 per share, central $21.64 per share, high $28.85 per share

- FY2021: low $23.76 per share, central $29.71 per share, high $39.61 per share

- FY2022: low $18.13 per share, central $22.66 per share, high $30.22 per share

- FY2023: low $25.93 per share, central $32.41 per share, high $43.22 per share

- FY2024: low $58.25 per share, central $72.81 per share, high $97.08 per share

- FY2025: low $74.50 per share, central $93.12 per share, high $124.16 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

[Original 10-K filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/907471/000090747125000116/cash-20250930.htm); period 2025-09-30, filed 2025-11-25.

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.

## Reported holder observations

- [Francis Chou](https://gigainvestors.com/ca): 27,389 CASH shares; USD 2,384,000 reported position value; 1.1% of portfolio; hold; quarter 2026 Q2.

# CASH — Meta Financial Group Inc.

Held by 1 investor · USD 2,384,000 total · 2026 Q2 · reported price USD 87.04 (split-adjusted).
Page: https://gigainvestors.com/s/CASH

## Holders (2026 Q2)

| Investor | Value | % of their portfolio | This quarter |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| Francis Chou (https://gigainvestors.com/ca) | USD 2,384,000 | 1.1% | hold |

## Total held by quarter

- 2024 Q2: USD 1,549,122 · 1 holder · USD 56.56
- 2024 Q3: USD 1,807,948 · 1 holder · USD 66.01
- 2024 Q4: USD 2,015,009 · 1 holder · USD 73.57
- 2025 Q1: USD 1,998,028 · 1 holder · USD 72.95
- 2025 Q2: USD 2,167,018 · 1 holder · USD 79.12
- 2025 Q3: USD 2,027,060 · 1 holder · USD 74.01
- 2025 Q4: USD 1,944,893 · 1 holder · USD 71.01
- 2026 Q1: USD 2,443,920 · 1 holder · USD 89.23
- 2026 Q2: USD 2,384,000 · 1 holder · USD 87.04