Hudson City Receives Top Rankings in Wall Street Journal Annual Shareholder Scoreboard
March 02 2006 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. ("Hudson City") (NASDAQ: HCBK) received
top rankings in The Wall Street Journal's Annual Shareholder
Scoreboard. The Wall Street Journal Scoreboard of 1,000 companies
across 76 industry groups cited Hudson City as the #1 bank in the
country for a 5-year average return of 33.6 percent and #2 for a
3-year average return of 30.5 percent. The total returns are
compounded annually through year-end 2005. "I am extremely proud of
our fine organization and its superior performance for our
shareholders, our customers and our community," said Ronald E.
Hermance, Jr., Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Hudson City. Last month, Hudson City agreed to acquire Sound
Federal Bancorp, Inc. ("Sound Federal") (NASDAQ: SFFS), expanding
its metropolitan New York franchise. At the time of the
announcement, Sound Federal Savings Bank had $1.15B in assets,
$970M in deposits, and $711M in net loans. Its branch network, 14
strong, is concentrated in New York's Westchester, Rockland, and
Putnam Counties as well as Fairfield, Connecticut. Upon anticipated
completion of the transaction, in summer 2006, Hudson City will
rank as the fourth largest savings and loan in the country, with
over $29 billion in assets and 104 branches in New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut. Hudson City Savings Bank is a well-established
banking institution with a long-standing tradition of service
excellence. Hudson City is recognized as The Most Efficient Bank in
the country, which enables it to provide better value to customers
in the form of higher deposit yields, competitive mortgage rates,
lower closing fees, and a straightforward streamlined process.
Hudson City, one of the leading savings banks in the country,
serves customers throughout metropolitan New York, Long Island, New
Jersey and Philadelphia. Deposit accounts at Hudson are FDIC
insured to the maximum amount allowed by law.
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