4 Value Stocks Paying Dividends & Now Trading Below Book

Now that we've seen selling and some stock market indices are back to levels they started the year with, you can find a value stock here and there. By value stock, I mean the kind of thing that Benjamin Graham and his student Warren Buffett used to look for: with a lower-than-the-market price/earnings ratio, a record of earnings, paying a dividend, debt under control and, if you could find them, trading for less than their stated, on-paper worth. Here are 5 stocks that may fit that basic "this is cheap" criteria right now. Hope Bancorp is Nasdaq-traded, headquartered in Los Angeles and, according to the bank's website, originated to serve the large Korean-American community on the west coast. Since the beginning of the year the stock has dropped from $19 to just under $14 quite a drop for the financial services firm.