Despite increased competition from biosimilars and blockbuster mergers by its rivals, Amgen revenues rose 8 percent to $21.67 billion in 2015 from $20.06 billion in 2014. Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen released its fourth-quarter earnings after markets closed on Jan. 28. Quarterly revenues were also up 4 percent to $5.54 billion in 2015 from $5.33 Read More →
Santa Barbara-based Montecito Bank & Trust reported net income of $15.9 million for 2015, up from $13.1 million in 2014. Total gross loans grew 17 percent year-over-year, totaling $711 million on Dec. 31. Total assets were up $53 million in 2015 to $1.2 billion. Total deposits increased 4.5 percent to $1.1 billion, up $48 million. Read More →
Community West Bancshares, parent company of Community West Bank headquartered in Goleta, reported a net income of $1.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2015, down from $2.2 million the previous year. For the full year, Community West reported net income of $2.9 million, down from $7 million in 2014. Excluding the $7.1 million net Read More →
Thousand Oaks-based Ceres Inc., an ag-biotech company, was awarded a patent in Australia for a trait that allows growers to increase yields without increasing crop inputs like fertilizer. The patent extends intellectual property protection to the Australian market of a key gene that Ceres has licensed to a multinational crop developer. It covers uses of Read More →
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Ontario-based Citizens Business Bank reported $28.6 million in net earnings for the fourth quarter of 2015, or 27 cents a share. That was up $3 million from the fourth quarter of 2014. For the year, net earnings were $99.1 million, or 93 cents per share. That was down $4.9 million, or 4.69 percent, from the Read More →
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