COFS vs. OBK, FBMS, OPFI, FSUN, OBNK, PFC, ML, AMAL, CNOB, and TRIN
Should you be buying ChoiceOne Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ChoiceOne Financial Services include Origin Bancorp (OBK), First Bancshares (FBMS), OppFi (OPFI), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Premier Financial (PFC), MoneyLion (ML), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), and Trinity Capital (TRIN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
ChoiceOne Financial Services vs.
ChoiceOne Financial Services (NASDAQ:COFS) and Origin Bancorp (NASDAQ:OBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
19.9% of ChoiceOne Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.7% of Origin Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of ChoiceOne Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Origin Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ChoiceOne Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Origin Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. ChoiceOne Financial Services pays out 91.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Origin Bancorp pays out 24.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ChoiceOne Financial Services has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. ChoiceOne Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Origin Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than ChoiceOne Financial Services. Origin Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ChoiceOne Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ChoiceOne Financial Services presently has a consensus price target of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.41%. Origin Bancorp has a consensus price target of $42.20, suggesting a potential upside of 27.94%. Given Origin Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Origin Bancorp is more favorable than ChoiceOne Financial Services.
In the previous week, Origin Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than ChoiceOne Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Origin Bancorp and 2 mentions for ChoiceOne Financial Services. Origin Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat ChoiceOne Financial Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Origin Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Origin Bancorp received 15 more outperform votes than ChoiceOne Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.61% of users gave Origin Bancorp an outperform vote while only 80.00% of users gave ChoiceOne Financial Services an outperform vote.
ChoiceOne Financial Services has a net margin of 19.21% compared to Origin Bancorp's net margin of 12.34%. ChoiceOne Financial Services' return on equity of 12.44% beat Origin Bancorp's return on equity.
ChoiceOne Financial Services has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Origin Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Origin Bancorp beats ChoiceOne Financial Services on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:COFS) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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