BMRC vs. FSB, CATC, HTBK, CNBKA, CPF, SASR, PFBC, PEBO, GABC, and SBSI
Should you be buying Bank of Marin Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of Marin Bancorp include Franklin Financial Network (FSB), Cambridge Bancorp (CATC), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), Century Bancorp (CNBKA), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), Preferred Bank (PFBC), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), German American Bancorp (GABC), and Southside Bancshares (SBSI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Franklin Financial Network (NYSE:FSB) and Bank of Marin Bancorp (NASDAQ:BMRC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Franklin Financial Network has a net margin of 15.25% compared to Franklin Financial Network's net margin of 9.28%. Bank of Marin Bancorp's return on equity of 7.53% beat Franklin Financial Network's return on equity.
Franklin Financial Network pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Bank of Marin Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Franklin Financial Network pays out 11.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of Marin Bancorp pays out 120.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bank of Marin Bancorp has increased its dividend for 18 consecutive years. Bank of Marin Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Bank of Marin Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Franklin Financial Network. Franklin Financial Network is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of Marin Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Franklin Financial Network has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of Marin Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
63.9% of Franklin Financial Network shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.3% of Bank of Marin Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 11.7% of Franklin Financial Network shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Bank of Marin Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bank of Marin Bancorp received 8 more outperform votes than Franklin Financial Network when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.28% of users gave Franklin Financial Network an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Bank of Marin Bancorp an outperform vote.
Bank of Marin Bancorp has a consensus target price of $17.33, indicating a potential downside of 22.45%. Given Franklin Financial Network's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bank of Marin Bancorp is more favorable than Franklin Financial Network.
In the previous week, Franklin Financial Network had 1 more articles in the media than Bank of Marin Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Franklin Financial Network and 3 mentions for Bank of Marin Bancorp. Franklin Financial Network's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Bank of Marin Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Bank of Marin Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Franklin Financial Network beats Bank of Marin Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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