FMNB vs. CCBG, WASH, THFF, HTBK, CCNE, HBNC, IBCP, CPF, EGBN, and RRBI
Should you be buying Farmers National Banc stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmers National Banc include Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), First Financial (THFF), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), CNB Financial (CCNE), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Independent Bank (IBCP), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), and Red River Bancshares (RRBI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Capital City Bank Group (NASDAQ:CCBG) and Farmers National Banc (NASDAQ:FMNB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Capital City Bank Group presently has a consensus price target of $34.25, indicating a potential upside of 24.68%. Farmers National Banc has a consensus price target of $15.33, indicating a potential upside of 24.16%. Given Farmers National Banc's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Capital City Bank Group is more favorable than Farmers National Banc.
In the previous week, Farmers National Banc's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Capital City Bank Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Capital City Bank Group received 35 more outperform votes than Farmers National Banc when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.60% of users gave Farmers National Banc an outperform vote while only 54.35% of users gave Capital City Bank Group an outperform vote.
44.6% of Capital City Bank Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.7% of Farmers National Banc shares are held by institutional investors. 19.4% of Capital City Bank Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Farmers National Banc shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Farmers National Banc has a net margin of 21.05% compared to Farmers National Banc's net margin of 19.86%. Capital City Bank Group's return on equity of 16.05% beat Farmers National Banc's return on equity.
Capital City Bank Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Farmers National Banc. Farmers National Banc is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital City Bank Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Capital City Bank Group pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Farmers National Banc pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Capital City Bank Group pays out 27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Farmers National Banc pays out 46.9% 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. Capital City Bank Group has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Capital City Bank Group has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Farmers National Banc has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Capital City Bank Group beats Farmers National Banc on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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