OBT vs. ACNB, CZNC, UNTY, BSVN, FRST, INBK, ORRF, BMRC, WTBA, and FBIZ
Should you be buying Orange County Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orange County Bancorp include ACNB (ACNB), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Unity Bancorp (UNTY), Bank7 (BSVN), Primis Financial (FRST), First Internet Bancorp (INBK), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), West Bancorporation (WTBA), and First Business Financial Services (FBIZ). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Orange County Bancorp (NASDAQ:OBT) and ACNB (NASDAQ:ACNB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
42.6% of Orange County Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.4% of ACNB shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Orange County Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of ACNB shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Orange County Bancorp has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACNB has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Orange County Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than ACNB. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Orange County Bancorp and 5 mentions for ACNB. ACNB's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Orange County Bancorp's score of 0.61 indicating that ACNB is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Orange County Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.93%. ACNB has a consensus target price of $38.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.39%. Given ACNB's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ACNB is more favorable than Orange County Bancorp.
ACNB has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orange County Bancorp. Orange County Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ACNB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Orange County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. ACNB pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Orange County Bancorp pays out 14.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ACNB pays out 34.7% 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.
Orange County Bancorp has a net margin of 26.05% compared to ACNB's net margin of 24.98%. Orange County Bancorp's return on equity of 23.31% beat ACNB's return on equity.
ACNB received 151 more outperform votes than Orange County Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.16% of users gave ACNB an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Orange County Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Orange County Bancorp beats ACNB on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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