MVB Financial (MVBF) Competitors

MVB Financial (NASDAQ:MVBF) and Amalgamated Financial (NASDAQ:AMAL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor MVBF or AMAL?

Amalgamated Financial received 70 more outperform votes than MVB Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.63% of users gave Amalgamated Financial an outperform vote while only 48.00% of users gave MVB Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
MVB Financial	Outperform Votes 24 48.00%	Underperform Votes 26 52.00%
Amalgamated Financial	Outperform Votes 94 56.63%	Underperform Votes 72 43.37%

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in MVBF or AMAL?

52.7% of MVB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.7% of MVB Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Amalgamated Financial shares are owned by company 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.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, MVBF or AMAL?

Amalgamated Financial has higher revenue and earnings than MVB Financial. Amalgamated Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MVB Financial, 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
MVB Financial	$144.31M	1.70	$20.09M	$1.46	12.95
Amalgamated Financial	$319.77M	2.90	$106.43M	$3.37	9.00

Is MVBF or AMAL more profitable?

Amalgamated Financial has a net margin of 24.50% compared to MVB Financial's net margin of 8.78%. Amalgamated Financial's return on equity of 16.49% beat MVB Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MVB Financial	8.78%	6.76%	0.59%
Amalgamated Financial	24.50%	16.49%	1.30%

Which has more risk and volatility, MVBF or AMAL?

MVB Financial has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amalgamated Financial has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts prefer MVBF or AMAL?

MVB Financial currently has a consensus target price of $24.67, suggesting a potential upside of 30.51%. Amalgamated Financial has a consensus target price of $36.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.30%. Given MVB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe MVB Financial is more favorable than Amalgamated Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MVB Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Amalgamated Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Does the media prefer MVBF or AMAL?

In the previous week, Amalgamated Financial had 2 more articles in the media than MVB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Amalgamated Financial and 3 mentions for MVB Financial. Amalgamated Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat MVB Financial's score of 1.00 indicating that Amalgamated Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
MVB Financial	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Amalgamated Financial	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is MVBF or AMAL a better dividend stock?

MVB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Amalgamated Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. MVB Financial pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amalgamated Financial pays out 16.6% 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. Amalgamated Financial has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Summary

Amalgamated Financial beats MVB Financial on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.