ALRS vs. CAC, AROW, BDGE, HAFC, SHBI, GNTY, AMNB, NEWT, CBNK, and FDBC
Should you be buying Alerus Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alerus Financial include Camden National (CAC), Arrow Financial (AROW), Bridge Bancorp (BDGE), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), American National Bankshares (AMNB), NewtekOne (NEWT), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), and Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC).
Camden National (NASDAQ:CAC) and Alerus Financial (NASDAQ:ALRS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Camden National has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alerus Financial has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Camden National has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alerus Financial. Camden National is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alerus Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alerus Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Camden National. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alerus Financial and 2 mentions for Camden National. Camden National's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Alerus Financial's score of 0.61 indicating that Alerus Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Camden National received 256 more outperform votes than Alerus Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.59% of users gave Camden National an outperform vote while only 20.59% of users gave Alerus Financial an outperform vote.
77.4% of Camden National shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.3% of Alerus Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Camden National shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Alerus Financial shares are owned by company 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.
Camden National has a net margin of 16.86% compared to Camden National's net margin of 4.34%. Alerus Financial's return on equity of 10.90% beat Camden National's return on equity.
Camden National pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Alerus Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Camden National pays out 56.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alerus Financial pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alerus Financial has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Camden National is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alerus Financial has a consensus target price of $23.50, suggesting a potential upside of 17.97%. Given Camden National's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alerus Financial is more favorable than Camden National.
Summary
Camden National beats Alerus Financial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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