UNTY vs. ORRF, FBIZ, CVCY, BCML, PKBK, PEBO, BY, GABC, QCRH, and OBK
Should you be buying Unity Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unity Bancorp include Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), First Business Financial Services (FBIZ), Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY), BayCom (BCML), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), Byline Bancorp (BY), German American Bancorp (GABC), QCR (QCRH), and Origin Bancorp (OBK). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Orrstown Financial Services (NASDAQ:ORRF) and Unity Bancorp (NASDAQ:UNTY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
Orrstown Financial Services received 73 more outperform votes than Unity Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.49% of users gave Unity Bancorp an outperform vote while only 60.63% of users gave Orrstown Financial Services an outperform vote.
44.3% of Orrstown Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.3% of Unity Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Orrstown Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of Unity Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Orrstown Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Unity Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Orrstown Financial Services pays out 23.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unity 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. Unity Bancorp has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Unity Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Orrstown Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Unity Bancorp and 3 mentions for Orrstown Financial Services. Orrstown Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Unity Bancorp's score of 0.44 indicating that Unity Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Orrstown Financial Services presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.62%. Given Unity Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Orrstown Financial Services is more favorable than Unity Bancorp.
Orrstown Financial Services has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unity Bancorp has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Unity Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orrstown Financial Services. Unity Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orrstown Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Unity Bancorp has a net margin of 24.92% compared to Unity Bancorp's net margin of 18.99%. Orrstown Financial Services' return on equity of 15.23% beat Unity Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Unity Bancorp beats Orrstown Financial Services on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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