PNBK vs. OPHC, NLIT, CNFR, CARV, PWM, SGD, JNVR, BENF, GRNQ, and MDRR
Should you be buying Patriot National Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Patriot National Bancorp include OptimumBank (OPHC), Northern Lights Acquisition (NLIT), Conifer (CNFR), Carver Bancorp (CARV), Prestige Wealth (PWM), Safe and Green Development (SGD), Janover (JNVR), Beneficient (BENF), Greenpro Capital (GRNQ), and Medalist Diversified REIT (MDRR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Patriot National Bancorp (NASDAQ:PNBK) and OptimumBank (NASDAQ:OPHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
39.3% of Patriot National Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.4% of OptimumBank shares are held by institutional investors. 13.4% of Patriot National Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of OptimumBank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
OptimumBank has a consensus target price of $5.25, indicating a potential upside of 22.95%. Given OptimumBank's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe OptimumBank is more favorable than Patriot National Bancorp.
Patriot National Bancorp has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OptimumBank has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, OptimumBank had 6 more articles in the media than Patriot National Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for OptimumBank and 3 mentions for Patriot National Bancorp. Patriot National Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat OptimumBank's score of 0.50 indicating that Patriot National Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OptimumBank has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Patriot National Bancorp. Patriot National Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OptimumBank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OptimumBank has a net margin of 16.43% compared to Patriot National Bancorp's net margin of -5.56%. OptimumBank's return on equity of 10.53% beat Patriot National Bancorp's return on equity.
Patriot National Bancorp received 69 more outperform votes than OptimumBank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.83% of users gave Patriot National Bancorp an outperform vote while only 33.87% of users gave OptimumBank an outperform vote.
Summary
OptimumBank beats Patriot National Bancorp on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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