MRBK vs. LARK, CFBK, FNCB, UBFO, OPOF, FUNC, UBOH, VABK, OPHC, and ATLO
Should you be buying Meridian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meridian include Landmark Bancorp (LARK), CF Bankshares (CFBK), FNCB Bancorp (FNCB), United Security Bancshares (UBFO), Old Point Financial (OPOF), First United (FUNC), United Bancshares (UBOH), Virginia National Bankshares (VABK), OptimumBank (OPHC), and Ames National (ATLO). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Meridian (NASDAQ:MRBK) and Landmark Bancorp (NASDAQ:LARK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
Landmark Bancorp received 39 more outperform votes than Meridian when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.65% of users gave Landmark Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.08% of users gave Meridian an outperform vote.
Meridian has higher revenue and earnings than Landmark Bancorp. Meridian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Landmark Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.6% of Meridian shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.7% of Landmark Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of Meridian shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Landmark Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Landmark Bancorp has a net margin of 15.70% compared to Meridian's net margin of 7.86%. Landmark Bancorp's return on equity of 10.38% beat Meridian's return on equity.
Meridian has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Landmark Bancorp has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Landmark Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Meridian. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Landmark Bancorp and 2 mentions for Meridian. Landmark Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Meridian's score of 0.00 indicating that Landmark Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Meridian presently has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 54.95%. Given Meridian's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Meridian is more favorable than Landmark Bancorp.
Meridian pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Landmark Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Meridian pays out 43.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Landmark Bancorp pays out 37.8% 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.
Summary
Landmark Bancorp beats Meridian on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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