BCAL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (California Bancorp | NASDAQ:BCAL)

California BanCorp is a registered bank holding company headquartered in San Diego, California. The Bank offers a range of financial products and services to individuals, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses through its 14 branch offices and four loan production offices serving Northern and Southern California. The Bank's solutions-driven, relationship-based approach to banking provides accessibility to decision-makers and enhances value through partnerships with its clients. The company has one operating segment: Commercial Banking.

California Bancorp trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol BCAL.

As of February 19, 2026, BCAL stock price was flat at $18.86 with 163,408 million shares trading.

BCAL has a beta of 1.17, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. BCAL has a correlation of 0.43 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BCAL has a market cap of $611.41 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter California Bancorp reported $46 million in Revenue and $.50 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $868,000 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.06.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BCAL belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VXF, AVUV, IWN.

BCAL has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +16.3%, while the SPY ETF gained +13.1%. However, in the most recent history, BCAL shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning +3.7% in the last 3 month period and -0.8% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +4.0% and -0.2%, respectively.

BCAL support price is $18.48 and resistance is $19.24 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BCAL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.