GNTY vs. SHBI, SMBK, BDGE, AROW, ALRS, CARE, NEWT, CBNK, PFIS, and FISI
Should you be buying Guaranty Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guaranty Bancshares include Shore Bancshares (SHBI), SmartFinancial (SMBK), Bridge Bancorp (BDGE), Arrow Financial (AROW), Alerus Financial (ALRS), Carter Bankshares (CARE), NewtekOne (NEWT), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), and Financial Institutions (FISI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Shore Bancshares (NASDAQ:SHBI) and Guaranty Bancshares (NASDAQ:GNTY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Shore Bancshares had 7 more articles in the media than Guaranty Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Shore Bancshares and 1 mentions for Guaranty Bancshares. Shore Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Guaranty Bancshares' score of -0.29 indicating that Guaranty Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shore Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 29.12%. Guaranty Bancshares has a consensus target price of $33.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.56%. Given Guaranty Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Shore Bancshares is more favorable than Guaranty Bancshares.
59.8% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of Guaranty Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.4% of Guaranty Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Shore Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Guaranty Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Shore Bancshares pays out 82.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Guaranty Bancshares pays out 39.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Guaranty Bancshares has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years.
Guaranty Bancshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Shore Bancshares. Guaranty Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shore Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Guaranty Bancshares received 38 more outperform votes than Shore Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.22% of users gave Guaranty Bancshares an outperform vote while only 56.92% of users gave Shore Bancshares an outperform vote.
Guaranty Bancshares has a net margin of 15.56% compared to Guaranty Bancshares' net margin of 5.66%. Shore Bancshares' return on equity of 8.74% beat Guaranty Bancshares' return on equity.
Shore Bancshares has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guaranty Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Guaranty Bancshares beats Shore Bancshares on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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