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We analyze Mercantile Bank's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Mercantile Bank using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Mercantile Bank based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.

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Is Regional Banks space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Mercantile Bank. If investors know Mercantile will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Mercantile Bank listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.

The market value of Mercantile Bank is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Mercantile that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Mercantile Bank's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Mercantile Bank's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Mercantile Bank's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Mercantile Bank's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.

Please note, there is a significant difference between Mercantile Bank's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Mercantile Bank is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Mercantile Bank's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.