Glen Burnie Bancorp (GLBZ) Competitors

Silvergate Capital (NYSE:SI) and Glen Burnie Bancorp (NASDAQ:GLBZ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.

Which has more risk & volatility, SI or GLBZ?

Silvergate Capital has a beta of 2.23, meaning that its share price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Glen Burnie Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of SI or GLBZ?

94.4% of Silvergate Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.8% of Glen Burnie Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Silvergate Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of Glen Burnie Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, SI or GLBZ?

Glen Burnie Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Silvergate Capital. Silvergate Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glen Burnie Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Silvergate Capital	-$609.47M	-0.02	-$937.91M	-$29.96	-0.01
Glen Burnie Bancorp	$14.44M	1.00	$1.43M	$0.50	10.00

Is SI or GLBZ more profitable?

Silvergate Capital has a net margin of 45.10% compared to Silvergate Capital's net margin of 9.90%. Glen Burnie Bancorp's return on equity of 8.87% beat Silvergate Capital's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Silvergate Capital	45.10%	8.87%	0.81%
Glen Burnie Bancorp	9.90%	8.41%	0.40%

Is SI or GLBZ a better dividend stock?

Silvergate Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.9420 per share and has a dividend yield of 817.2%. Glen Burnie Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Silvergate Capital pays out -9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Glen Burnie Bancorp pays out 80.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Silvergate Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SI or GLBZ?

Glen Burnie Bancorp received 37 more outperform votes than Silvergate Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.22% of users gave Glen Burnie Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.83% of users gave Silvergate Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Silvergate Capital	Outperform Votes 84 52.83%	Underperform Votes 75 47.17%
Glen Burnie Bancorp	Outperform Votes 121 67.22%	Underperform Votes 59 32.78%

Do analysts rate SI or GLBZ?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Silvergate Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Glen Burnie Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the media favor SI or GLBZ?

In the previous week, Glen Burnie Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Silvergate Capital. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Glen Burnie Bancorp and 1 mentions for Silvergate Capital. Silvergate Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Glen Burnie Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Glen Burnie Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Silvergate Capital	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Glen Burnie Bancorp	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Glen Burnie Bancorp beats Silvergate Capital on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.