CHMG vs. OVLY, PKBK, BOCH, TCFC, ISTR, SBSI, AMAL, CTBI, FMBH, and PFC
Should you be buying Chemung Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chemung Financial include Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Bank of Commerce (BOCH), Community Financial (TCFC), Investar (ISTR), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), and Premier Financial (PFC).
Chemung Financial (NASDAQ:CHMG) and Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Chemung Financial has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chemung Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Chemung Financial pays out 23.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Oak Valley Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chemung Financial. Oak Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemung Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chemung Financial presently has a consensus target price of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.69%. Given Chemung Financial's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Chemung Financial is more favorable than Oak Valley Bancorp.
In the previous week, Oak Valley Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Chemung Financial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Oak Valley Bancorp and 1 mentions for Chemung Financial. Chemung Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Oak Valley Bancorp's score of 0.50 indicating that Chemung Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Oak Valley Bancorp received 27 more outperform votes than Chemung Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.28% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.11% of users gave Chemung Financial an outperform vote.
47.5% of Chemung Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.0% of Chemung Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.3% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 31.38% compared to Chemung Financial's net margin of 17.35%. Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity of 17.78% beat Chemung Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Oak Valley Bancorp beats Chemung Financial on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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