CNOB vs. PFC, AMAL, FMBH, CTBI, SBSI, UVSP, OSBC, LBAI, FCBC, and CFB
Should you be buying ConnectOne Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ConnectOne Bancorp include Premier Financial (PFC), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Univest Financial (UVSP), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), and CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
ConnectOne Bancorp (NASDAQ:CNOB) and Premier Financial (NASDAQ:PFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
ConnectOne Bancorp has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Premier Financial has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Premier Financial has a net margin of 23.67% compared to ConnectOne Bancorp's net margin of 15.29%. Premier Financial's return on equity of 9.12% beat ConnectOne Bancorp's return on equity.
ConnectOne Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $24.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.00%. Premier Financial has a consensus target price of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.63%. Given ConnectOne Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe ConnectOne Bancorp is more favorable than Premier Financial.
Premier Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ConnectOne Bancorp. Premier Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ConnectOne Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.7% of ConnectOne Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of Premier Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of ConnectOne Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Premier Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Premier Financial had 1 more articles in the media than ConnectOne Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Premier Financial and 2 mentions for ConnectOne Bancorp. Premier Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat ConnectOne Bancorp's score of 0.05 indicating that Premier Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ConnectOne Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Premier Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. ConnectOne Bancorp pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Premier Financial pays out 40.0% 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.
ConnectOne Bancorp received 246 more outperform votes than Premier Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.82% of users gave ConnectOne Bancorp an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Premier Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
ConnectOne Bancorp beats Premier Financial on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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