OVLY vs. CHMG, PKBK, NWFL, SBNY, FVCB, PCB, CBAN, CZFS, COFS, and FFNW
Should you be buying Oak Valley Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oak Valley Bancorp include Chemung Financial (CHMG), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Norwood Financial (NWFL), Signature Bank (SBNY), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), PCB Bancorp (PCB), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), Citizens Financial Services (CZFS), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), and First Financial Northwest (FFNW). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Chemung Financial (NASDAQ:CHMG) and Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
Chemung Financial has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Oak Valley Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chemung Financial. Oak Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemung Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chemung Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Chemung Financial pays out 23.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 13.6% 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. Oak Valley Bancorp has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Chemung Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Oak Valley Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Chemung Financial and 1 mentions for Oak Valley Bancorp. Chemung Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Oak Valley Bancorp's score of -0.21 indicating that Oak Valley Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chemung Financial currently has a consensus price target of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.90%. Given Oak Valley Bancorp's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Chemung Financial is more favorable than Oak Valley Bancorp.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 35.34% compared to Oak Valley Bancorp's net margin of 17.35%. Chemung Financial's return on equity of 18.30% beat Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity.
Oak Valley Bancorp received 27 more outperform votes than Chemung Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.00% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.11% of users gave Chemung Financial an outperform vote.
47.5% of Chemung Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.0% of Chemung Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Oak Valley Bancorp beats Chemung Financial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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