Validea Martin Zweig Strategy Daily Upgrade Report - 11/8/2025

The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Growth Investor model based on the published strategy of Martin Zweig. This strategy looks for growth stocks with persistent accelerating earnings and sales growth, reasonable valuations and low debt.

LCNB CORP (LCNB) is a small-cap value stock in the Money Center Banks industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Martin Zweig changed from 69% to 85% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: LCNB Corp. is a financial holding company. The Company operates, through its wholly owned subsidiary, LCNB National Bank (the Bank), which serves customers and communities in Southwest and South-Central Ohio. The Bank operates over 36 offices; one branch office in Boone County, Kentucky. It offers various loan products, such as commercial and industrial loans, commercial and residential real estate loans, agricultural loans, construction loans, various types of consumer loans, and small business administration loans. The Bank's residential mortgage lending activities consist primarily of loans for purchasing or refinancing personal residences, home equity lines of credit, and loans for commercial or consumer purposes secured by residential mortgages. Other services offered include safe deposit boxes, night depositories, cashier's checks, bank-by-mail, ATMs, cash and transaction services, debit cards, wire transfer, electronic funds transfer, utility bill collections, and others.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria. P/E RATIO:PASSREVENUE GROWTH IN RELATION TO EPS GROWTH:PASSSALES GROWTH RATE:PASSCURRENT QUARTER EARNINGS:PASSQUARTERLY EARNINGS ONE YEAR AGO:PASSPOSITIVE EARNINGS GROWTH RATE FOR CURRENT QUARTER:PASSEARNINGS GROWTH RATE FOR THE PAST SEVERAL QUARTERS:PASSEPS GROWTH FOR CURRENT QUARTER MUST BE GREATER THAN PRIOR 3 QUARTERS:PASSEPS GROWTH FOR CURRENT QUARTER MUST BE GREATER THAN THE HISTORICAL GROWTH RATE:PASSEARNINGS PERSISTENCE:FAILLONG-TERM EPS GROWTH:FAILINSIDER TRANSACTIONS:PASS

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OP BANCORP (OPBK) is a small-cap value stock in the Money Center Banks industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Martin Zweig changed from 69% to 85% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: OP Bancorp is the holding company for Open Bank (the Bank). The Bank is engaged in the general commercial banking business in Los Angeles, Orange, and Santa Clara Counties in California, the Dallas metropolitan area in Texas, and Clark County in Nevada and is focused on serving the banking needs of small- and medium-sized businesses, professionals, and residents, with a particular emphasis on Korean and other ethnic minority communities. Its lending activities are diversified and include commercial real estate, commercial and industrial, SBA, home mortgage, and consumer loans. The Bank operates approximately 11 full-service branch offices in Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles Fashion District, Los Angeles Koreatown, Cerritos, Gardena, Buena Park, and Santa Clara, California, Carrollton, Texas and Las Vegas, Nevada. The Bank also has five loan production offices in Pleasanton, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Aurora, Colorado, Lynnwood, Washington, and Fairfax, Virginia.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria. P/E RATIO:PASSREVENUE GROWTH IN RELATION TO EPS GROWTH:PASSSALES GROWTH RATE:PASSCURRENT QUARTER EARNINGS:PASSQUARTERLY EARNINGS ONE YEAR AGO:PASSPOSITIVE EARNINGS GROWTH RATE FOR CURRENT QUARTER:PASSEARNINGS GROWTH RATE FOR THE PAST SEVERAL QUARTERS:PASSEPS GROWTH FOR CURRENT QUARTER MUST BE GREATER THAN PRIOR 3 QUARTERS:PASSEPS GROWTH FOR CURRENT QUARTER MUST BE GREATER THAN THE HISTORICAL GROWTH RATE:PASSEARNINGS PERSISTENCE:FAILLONG-TERM EPS GROWTH:FAILINSIDER TRANSACTIONS:PASS

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OPBK Guru Analysis

OPBK Fundamental Analysis

Martin Zweig Portfolio

About Martin Zweig: During the 15 years that it was monitored, Zweig's stock recommendation newsletter returned an average of 15.9 percent per year, during which time it was ranked number one based on risk-adjusted returns by Hulbert Financial Digest. Zweig has managed both mutual and hedge funds during his career, and he's put the fortune he's compiled to some interesting uses. He has owned what Forbes reported was the most expensive apartment in New York, a $70 million penthouse that sits atop Manhattan's Pierre Hotel, and he is a collector of all sorts of pop culture and historical memorabilia -- among his purchases are the gun used by Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry", a stock certificate signed by Commodore Vanderbilt, and even two old-fashioned gas pumps similar to those he'd seen at a nearby gas station while growing up in Cleveland, according to published reports.

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