Top Shelf Financial Stocks?

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I have been nibbling on PBCT over the last year or so. Yield over 4%, and they kept raising the dividend through the recession. Clearly, dividend growth has been low since 2009, but with rising rates, they may stand to make more money and raise more.

Bank branches are in affluent states; Connecticut, southeastern New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.