Carolina Bank Holdings (Carolina Bank Holdings) EV-to-EBIT

Carolina Bank Holdings Inc was incorporated under the laws of the State of North Carolina on August 16, 2000. It is a bank holding company for Carolina Bank. The Company is engaged in a general banking business in Guilford, Alamance, Randolph and Forsyth Counties, North Carolina. Its operations are mainly commercially oriented and directed to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses located in its market area and its deposits and loans are derived mainly from customers in its geographic market. The Company is considered to have three principal business segments Commercial/Retail Bank, the Mortgage Division, and the Holding Company. The mortgage division originates residential mortgage loans through other banks and brokers in addition to retail loan officers, who are located in five loan production offices and in five of its banking offices, and sells the loans to investors. The Company's primary service area consists of the Cities of Greensboro, High Point, Burlington, Winston-Salem and Asheboro, North Carolina and the areas immediately surrounding Greensboro, High Point, Burlington, Winston-Salem and Asheboro, all of which are located in Guilford, Alamance, Forsyth and Randolph Counties, North Carolina. Residential mortgage loan production offices are located in Burlington, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Raleigh and Sanford, NC. The Company competes directly for deposits in its primary service area with other commercial banks, savings banks, credit unions, agencies issuing United States government securities and all other organizations and institutions engaged in money market transactions, in lending activities, the bank competes with all other financial institutions. The Company is subject to supervision, examination and regulation by the North Carolina Office of the Commissioner of Banks ("Commissioner") and the FDIC and to North Carolina and federal statutory and regulatory provisions governing such matters as capital standards, mergers, subsidiary investments and establishment of branch offices.