CMFN vs. EFSI, OXSQ, FRAF, HNVR, WHG, PEBK, NNY, BVFL, BANX, and SUNS
Should you be buying CM Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CM Finance include Eagle Financial Services (EFSI), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), Franklin Financial Services (FRAF), Hanover Bancorp (HNVR), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), Nuveen New York Municipal Valu (NNY), BV Financial (BVFL), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), and Sunrise Realty Trust (SUNS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CM Finance vs. Its Competitors
CM Finance (NASDAQ:CMFN) and Eagle Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and risk.
Eagle Financial Services has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.63%. Given Eagle Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eagle Financial Services is more favorable than CM Finance.
CM Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Eagle Financial Services. CM Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CM Finance has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Financial Services has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CM Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 36.4%. Eagle Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. CM Finance pays out 71.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Financial Services pays out 59.9% 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. Eagle Financial Services has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
44.5% of CM Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Eagle Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of CM Finance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Eagle Financial Services 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.
Eagle Financial Services has a net margin of 5.68% compared to CM Finance's net margin of -13.35%. CM Finance's return on equity of 11.75% beat Eagle Financial Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, Eagle Financial Services had 1 more articles in the media than CM Finance. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Eagle Financial Services and 0 mentions for CM Finance. CM Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Eagle Financial Services'average media sentiment score.
Summary
Eagle Financial Services beats CM Finance on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CMFN) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
