Recently published the title article Why these 15 financial services stocks are surged in 2025. In this article, we look at where Old Point Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: OPOF) competes against other financial services stocks.
The financial services sector entered 2025 with strong performance and a wave of new investor interest. The sector consists of banking, payments, insurance and asset management, and is the foundation of the global economy.
These stocks didn’t do much during the 2022 recession as there was uncertainty about whether the Federal Reserve would bail out regional banks. However, after the “mini-bank crisis” settled, these stocks worked very well despite the uncertainty of macro trends. And for some stocks, the momentum has been stronger so far this year. It’s worth seeing why.
The bear market also has a pocket of markets that works very well. For example, I identified 15 most rising real estate stocks in 2025 In another article.
In this article, I screened the best performing financial services stocks each year.
We also mention the number of hedge fund investors in these stocks. Why are hedge funds interested in the stocks they accumulate? The reason is simple. Our research shows that mimic the top stock picks of the best hedge funds can outperform the market. Quarterly Newsletter’s strategy was to select 14 small and large caps per quarter, returning 373.4% since May 2014, surpassing the benchmark by 218 percentage points (For more information, please see here).
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Number of hedge fund holders in the fourth quarter: 2
Old Point Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: OPOF) is a community-centric bank holding company headquartered in Hampton, Virginia, providing retail and commercial banking, asset management, mortgages and insurance services through its subsidiaries and branches in the Hampton Road area.
Stocks have grown significantly so far in 2025. This was announced on April 3, 2025, and is caused by the old points merged with Town Bank. Under the merger agreement, Old Point shareholders may choose to receive either $41.00 in cash or 1.14 shares of Townebank shares per Old Point share, valueating the transaction at approximately $203 million.
The deal marked a massive premium on the stock price before Old Points’ announcement, quickly raising the stock by more than 40% in one session, well above the 5% threshold.
