Article: Pacerville, Calif.-Based El Dorado Wins Honor as Top Savings & Loan in West.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 5 -- Placerville-based El Dorado Savings Bank has received a research firm's highest ranking among savings and loans in the West.

"It says they've combined profitability with a well-managed balance sheet," Andy Hunt, a researcher with SNL Securities of Charlottesville, Va., said of the achievement. "They've kept cost low, got good returns on earnings and avoided problem assets. They have a well-disciplined operating policy."

A year earlier, the research firm's top 50 list of S&Ls in the West ranked El Dorado second behind First Federal Savings & Loan Association of McMinnville, Ore. For 1998, the two ...

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