FMAO vs. CTBI, FBIZ, FMBH, OBK, SHBI, STEL, TCBK, THFF, UVSP, and QCRH
Should you be buying Farmers & Merchants Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp include Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Business Financial Services (FBIZ), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), Stellarone (STEL), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), First Financial Corporation Indiana (THFF), Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania (UVSP), and QCR (QCRH). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:FMAO) and Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Community Trust Bancorp has a net margin of 23.33% compared to Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's net margin of 16.04%. Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity of 11.77% beat Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's return on equity.
Community Trust Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Community Trust Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp and 2 mentions for Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's score of 0.34 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Community Trust Bancorp has a consensus target price of $64.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.50%. Given Community Trust Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Community Trust Bancorp is more favorable than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp pays out 40.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 41.7% 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. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp has raised its dividend for 19 consecutive years and Community Trust Bancorp has raised its dividend for 44 consecutive years. Community Trust Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
24.0% of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats Farmers & Merchants Bancorp on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:FMAO) was last updated on 9/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
