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Bank of the James Financial Group Inc. BOTJ

16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$4.3M
▲ 6.7% YoY
$9.0M
▲ 13.6% YoY
$10.5M
▲ 76.1% YoY
In brief

What this company does

The Bank engages in general retail and commercial banking activities. Financial conducts three principal activities: (1) general retail and commercial banking through Bank of the James; (2) mortgage brokerage services through Bank of the James Mortgage, a division of the Bank (the “Mortgage Division”); and (3) investment advisory (sometimes referred to as wealth management) services through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pettyjohn, Wood & White, Inc. (“PWW”). The Bank currently conducts business within Virginia from 19 full-service offices, two limited service offices, and two residential mortgage loan production offices.

Written from the business description in Bank of the James Financial Group, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 4.3M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 4.3 · Net income 9.0
4M8M201020122014201620182020202220242025
Compound annual growth
+6.0%
+16.0%
+0.2%
+12.6%
+9.3%
+11.3%
+1.4%
+13.9%
+6.4%
+9.0%
+11.3%
+7.4%
+6.2%
−13.1%
+4.0%
+8.5%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +16.0% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +12.6%, earnings per share at +13.9%.

The share count rose from 0.00B to 0.00B over the period.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
211 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 260.8% · Net 211.1%
100%200%300%201020122014201620182020202220242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 12.5%
5%10%15%201020122014201620182020202220242025

Each USD of equity produced 12 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 1.8M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 10.5
5M10M201020122014201620182020202220242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 1.8 · Net buybacks —
1M2MDividendsNet buybacks2014201620182020202220242025

USD 1.8M in dividends — 20% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 1.0B
EquityUSD 80.0M
CashUSD 84.5M
Gross debtUSD 0.00
Net debtUSD -84.5M
DepositsUSD 937.1M

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 16-year record
16 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010
Revenue $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0·······
Operating income $B0.00.00.00.00.00.0··········
EBITDA $B0.00.00.00.00.00.0··········
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.0
Net income $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $1.991.751.911.911.601.041.281.210.670.751.071.010.910.640.180.55
Dividend / sh $0.400.400.320.290.280.280.280.240.240.240.220.15····
Payout %202317151724222036322215····
ROE %12.512.715.815.011.17.89.69.95.86.78.910.610.37.62.37.1
Shares out B0.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.00

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 47 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of 19 fiscal years. 10 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityState Commercial Banks
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inVirginia
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2010

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