AMAL vs. CTBI, FMBH, LBAI, PFC, CNOB, UVSP, OSBC, FCBC, GSBC, and CFB
Should you be buying Amalgamated Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amalgamated Financial include Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Premier Financial (PFC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Univest Financial (UVSP), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), and CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) and Amalgamated Financial (NASDAQ:AMAL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Amalgamated Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Community Trust Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Amalgamated Financial and 4 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp. Amalgamated Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Community Trust Bancorp's score of 0.76 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Amalgamated Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amalgamated Financial pays out 13.1% 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. Community Trust Bancorp has raised its dividend for 43 consecutive years and Amalgamated Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Community Trust Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Amalgamated Financial has a net margin of 23.22% compared to Amalgamated Financial's net margin of 22.64%. Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity of 16.81% beat Amalgamated Financial's return on equity.
Amalgamated Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Community Trust Bancorp. Amalgamated Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Trust Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Trust Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.62%. Amalgamated Financial has a consensus target price of $29.50, suggesting a potential upside of 17.44%. Given Community Trust Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amalgamated Financial is more favorable than Community Trust Bancorp.
Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amalgamated Financial has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Community Trust Bancorp received 135 more outperform votes than Amalgamated Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.63% of users gave Amalgamated Financial an outperform vote while only 52.34% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Amalgamated Financial beats Community Trust Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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