BWFG vs. OVLY, MBCN, CFFI, BOCH, EBMT, CTBI, FMBH, CNOB, PFC, and CFB
Should you be buying Bankwell Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bankwell Financial Group include Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), C&F Financial (CFFI), Bank of Commerce (BOCH), Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Premier Financial (PFC), and CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) and Bankwell Financial Group (NASDAQ:BWFG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 31.38% compared to Oak Valley Bancorp's net margin of 15.28%. Bankwell Financial Group's return on equity of 17.78% beat Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Oak Valley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Bankwell Financial Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Bankwell Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bankwell Financial Group received 18 more outperform votes than Oak Valley Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.10% of users gave Bankwell Financial Group an outperform vote while only 54.46% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote.
30.9% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.8% of Bankwell Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of Bankwell Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.35, indicating that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bankwell Financial Group has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bankwell Financial Group has a consensus target price of $34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.14%. Given Oak Valley Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bankwell Financial Group is more favorable than Oak Valley Bancorp.
Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Bankwell Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bankwell Financial Group pays out 20.8% 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 raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Bankwell Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Oak Valley Bancorp. Bankwell Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oak Valley Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bankwell Financial Group beats Oak Valley Bancorp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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