CBAN vs. COFS, FFNW, NWFL, MBCN, PKBK, BWFG, CALB, FVCB, SBNY, and OVLY
Should you be buying Colony Bankcorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Colony Bankcorp include ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), Norwood Financial (NWFL), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), California BanCorp (CALB), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Signature Bank (SBNY), and Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
ChoiceOne Financial Services (NASDAQ:COFS) and Colony Bankcorp (NASDAQ:CBAN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
ChoiceOne Financial Services presently has a consensus target price of $24.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.64%. Given Colony Bankcorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe ChoiceOne Financial Services is more favorable than Colony Bankcorp.
Colony Bankcorp has higher revenue and earnings than ChoiceOne Financial Services. Colony Bankcorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ChoiceOne Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Colony Bankcorp received 100 more outperform votes than ChoiceOne Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.80% of users gave Colony Bankcorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave ChoiceOne Financial Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Colony Bankcorp had 4 more articles in the media than ChoiceOne Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Colony Bankcorp and 5 mentions for ChoiceOne Financial Services. Colony Bankcorp's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat ChoiceOne Financial Services' score of 0.35 indicating that ChoiceOne Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
19.9% of ChoiceOne Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Colony Bankcorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of ChoiceOne Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Colony Bankcorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ChoiceOne Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Colony Bankcorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. ChoiceOne Financial Services pays out 38.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Colony Bankcorp pays out 36.0% 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. ChoiceOne Financial Services has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Colony Bankcorp has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years. ChoiceOne Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
ChoiceOne Financial Services has a net margin of 17.53% compared to ChoiceOne Financial Services' net margin of 13.17%. Colony Bankcorp's return on equity of 11.47% beat ChoiceOne Financial Services' return on equity.
ChoiceOne Financial Services has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Colony Bankcorp has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ChoiceOne Financial Services beats Colony Bankcorp on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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