MVBF vs. BSRR, ORRF, UNTY, CZNC, WTBA, BMRC, OBT, FRBA, BSVN, and INBK
Should you be buying MVB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MVB Financial include Sierra Bancorp (BSRR), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), Unity Bancorp (UNTY), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), Orange County Bancorp (OBT), First Bank (FRBA), Bank7 (BSVN), and First Internet Bancorp (INBK). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
MVB Financial (NASDAQ:MVBF) and Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Sierra Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MVB Financial. Sierra Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MVB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MVB Financial has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Sierra Bancorp has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MVB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Sierra Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. MVB Financial pays out 28.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sierra Bancorp pays out 39.0% 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.
In the previous week, MVB Financial and MVB Financial both had 2 articles in the media. MVB Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Sierra Bancorp's score of 0.29 indicating that MVB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
52.7% of MVB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.6% of MVB Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.6% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MVB Financial currently has a consensus target price of $28.33, indicating a potential upside of 29.67%. Sierra Bancorp has a consensus target price of $21.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.37%. Given MVB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MVB Financial is more favorable than Sierra Bancorp.
Sierra Bancorp has a net margin of 18.01% compared to MVB Financial's net margin of 14.91%. Sierra Bancorp's return on equity of 11.03% beat MVB Financial's return on equity.
Sierra Bancorp received 201 more outperform votes than MVB Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.11% of users gave Sierra Bancorp an outperform vote while only 40.48% of users gave MVB Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
MVB Financial beats Sierra Bancorp on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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