FVCB vs. AMAL, FMBH, CTBI, PFC, CNOB, UVSP, OSBC, CFB, FCBC, and MCBS
Should you be buying FVCBankcorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FVCBankcorp include Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), Premier Financial (PFC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Univest Financial (UVSP), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), and MetroCity Bankshares (MCBS). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
FVCBankcorp (NASDAQ:FVCB) and Amalgamated Financial (NASDAQ:AMAL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
43.6% of FVCBankcorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of FVCBankcorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Amalgamated Financial received 75 more outperform votes than FVCBankcorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.00% of users gave FVCBankcorp an outperform vote while only 55.63% of users gave Amalgamated Financial an outperform vote.
FVCBankcorp has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amalgamated Financial has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Amalgamated Financial has a net margin of 23.22% compared to FVCBankcorp's net margin of 4.55%. Amalgamated Financial's return on equity of 16.34% beat FVCBankcorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, FVCBankcorp and FVCBankcorp both had 3 articles in the media. Amalgamated Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat FVCBankcorp's score of 0.89 indicating that Amalgamated Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Amalgamated Financial has higher revenue and earnings than FVCBankcorp. Amalgamated Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FVCBankcorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FVCBankcorp currently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.97%. Amalgamated Financial has a consensus price target of $29.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.05%. Given FVCBankcorp's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe FVCBankcorp is more favorable than Amalgamated Financial.
Summary
Amalgamated Financial beats FVCBankcorp on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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