CBAN vs. FVCB, BWFG, CHMG, CALB, MBCN, NWFL, PKBK, OVLY, COFS, and SBNY
Should you be buying Colony Bankcorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Colony Bankcorp include FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), Chemung Financial (CHMG), California BanCorp (CALB), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), Norwood Financial (NWFL), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), and Signature Bank (SBNY). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
FVCBankcorp (NASDAQ:FVCB) and Colony Bankcorp (NASDAQ:CBAN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and valuation.
FVCBankcorp currently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.34%. Given Colony Bankcorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe FVCBankcorp is more favorable than Colony Bankcorp.
In the previous week, Colony Bankcorp had 2 more articles in the media than FVCBankcorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Colony Bankcorp and 4 mentions for FVCBankcorp. FVCBankcorp's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Colony Bankcorp's score of -0.10 indicating that Colony Bankcorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FVCBankcorp has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Colony Bankcorp has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Colony Bankcorp has higher revenue and earnings than FVCBankcorp. Colony Bankcorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FVCBankcorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Colony Bankcorp has a net margin of 13.55% compared to Colony Bankcorp's net margin of 4.55%. FVCBankcorp's return on equity of 9.32% beat Colony Bankcorp's return on equity.
43.6% of FVCBankcorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Colony Bankcorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of FVCBankcorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Colony Bankcorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Colony Bankcorp received 86 more outperform votes than FVCBankcorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.80% of users gave Colony Bankcorp an outperform vote while only 56.00% of users gave FVCBankcorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Colony Bankcorp beats FVCBankcorp on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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