OCBI vs. FSP, OVLY, FVCB, NWFL, PDLB, BWFG, NPV, PKBK, BPRN, and FANH
Should you be buying Orange County Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orange County Bancorp include Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Norwood Financial (NWFL), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Princeton Bancorp (BPRN), and Fanhua (FANH). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Franklin Street Properties (NYSE:FSP) and Orange County Bancorp (NASDAQ:OCBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Franklin Street Properties currently has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.00%. Given Orange County Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Franklin Street Properties is more favorable than Orange County Bancorp.
Orange County Bancorp has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Orange County Bancorp's net margin of -33.02%. Franklin Street Properties' return on equity of 0.00% beat Orange County Bancorp's return on equity.
Orange County Bancorp received 4 more outperform votes than Franklin Street Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Orange County Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Franklin Street Properties an outperform vote.
Orange County Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Franklin Street Properties. Franklin Street Properties is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orange County Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Franklin Street Properties had 4 more articles in the media than Orange County Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Franklin Street Properties and 1 mentions for Orange County Bancorp. Orange County Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Franklin Street Properties' score of 0.00 indicating that Franklin Street Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
61.4% of Franklin Street Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of Orange County Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Franklin Street Properties shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Franklin Street Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Orange County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Franklin Street Properties pays out -8.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Orange County Bancorp pays out 16.9% 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. Franklin Street Properties is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Orange County Bancorp beats Franklin Street Properties on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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