SHBI vs. SMBK, AROW, GNTY, ALRS, NEWT, CARE, CBNK, FDBC, FISI, and CAC
Should you be buying Shore Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shore Bancshares include SmartFinancial (SMBK), Arrow Financial (AROW), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Alerus Financial (ALRS), NewtekOne (NEWT), Carter Bankshares (CARE), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Financial Institutions (FISI), and Camden National (CAC). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and Shore Bancshares (NASDAQ:SHBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking and earnings.
SmartFinancial presently has a consensus target price of $25.40, indicating a potential upside of 10.43%. Shore Bancshares has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.25%. Given SmartFinancial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Shore Bancshares is more favorable than SmartFinancial.
SmartFinancial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Shore Bancshares. SmartFinancial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shore Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.8% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of SmartFinancial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Shore Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Shore Bancshares and 2 mentions for SmartFinancial. SmartFinancial's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Shore Bancshares' score of 0.84 indicating that Shore Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shore Bancshares has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Shore Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. SmartFinancial pays out 20.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shore Bancshares pays out 82.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SmartFinancial has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
SmartFinancial has a net margin of 10.65% compared to SmartFinancial's net margin of 5.66%. SmartFinancial's return on equity of 7.33% beat Shore Bancshares' return on equity.
SmartFinancial received 4 more outperform votes than Shore Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.51% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 56.92% of users gave Shore Bancshares an outperform vote.
Summary
SmartFinancial beats Shore Bancshares on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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