Industry: Banks Regional

Sector: Financial Services

Embassy Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for the Embassy Bank for the Lehigh Valley that provides traditional banking and related financial services to individual, business, and government customers in Pennsylvania. The company's deposit products include savings, money market, individual retirement, and NOW accounts; demand and time deposits; and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises secured fixed and variable rate loans; business loans; consumer loans, including mortgages, secured home equity loans, lines of credit, auto, and unsecured personal loans, as well as mortgage escrow services; residential mortgage loans; and commercial mortgage/construction loans. In addition, the company offers various other services, such as treasurer and certified check, wire transfer, credit/debit card merchant processing, direct deposit/ACH, ACH origination, fraud detection, cash and escrow management, safe deposit box, remote deposit capture, mobile banking, night depository, bank by mail, savings bond redemptions, person to person payment, positive pay, automated teller machine, and online banking and bill pay services, as well as gift, commercial and consumer credit, and ATM and debit cards. It has branch offices in South Whitehall Township, Lower Macungie Township, the City of Bethlehem, Salisbury Township, Lower Saucon Township, Lower Nazareth Township, Borough of Nazareth, and Borough of Macungie, as well as in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Embassy Bancorp, Inc. is evaluated using Mavefund's quality framework: growing earnings, durable profit margins, conservative leverage, strong return on equity, and disciplined share repurchases.