ISTR vs. SBBX, PWOD, TCFC, CHMG, PKBK, TRIN, IBCP, CCB, BFST, and HKD
Should you be buying Investar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Investar include SB One Bancorp (SBBX), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), Community Financial (TCFC), Chemung Financial (CHMG), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Trinity Capital (TRIN), Independent Bank (IBCP), Coastal Financial (CCB), Business First Bancshares (BFST), and AMTD Digital (HKD).
SB One Bancorp (NASDAQ:SBBX) and Investar (NASDAQ:ISTR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
SB One Bancorp has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Investar has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SB One Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Investar pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. SB One Bancorp pays out 15.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Investar pays out 22.3% 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.
SB One Bancorp has a net margin of 22.33% compared to SB One Bancorp's net margin of 10.04%. Investar's return on equity of 10.39% beat SB One Bancorp's return on equity.
SB One Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Investar. SB One Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Investar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
42.9% of SB One Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of Investar shares are held by institutional investors. 14.4% of SB One Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Investar shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Investar has a consensus target price of $16.75, suggesting a potential downside of 10.81%. Given SB One Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Investar is more favorable than SB One Bancorp.
Investar received 16 more outperform votes than SB One Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.98% of users gave SB One Bancorp an outperform vote while only 60.17% of users gave Investar an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Investar had 8 more articles in the media than SB One Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Investar and 0 mentions for SB One Bancorp. SB One Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Investar's score of 0.00 indicating that Investar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SB One Bancorp beats Investar on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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