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OVBC vs. FSBC, SMBC, VEL, LDI, SMBK, CBNK, BITF, MPB, ALRS, and SHBI

Should you be buying Ohio Valley Banc stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ohio Valley Banc include Five Star Bancorp (FSBC), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Velocity Financial (VEL), loanDepot (LDI), SmartFinancial (SMBK), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Bitfarms (BITF), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), Alerus Financial (ALRS), and Shore Bancshares (SHBI). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Ohio Valley Banc vs. Its Competitors

Ohio Valley Banc (NASDAQ:OVBC) and Five Star Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Ohio Valley Banc has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five Star Bancorp has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Five Star Bancorp has a consensus target price of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.62%. Given Five Star Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Five Star Bancorp is more favorable than Ohio Valley Banc.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ohio Valley Banc
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Five Star Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

Five Star Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Ohio Valley Banc. Five Star Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ohio Valley Banc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ohio Valley Banc$63.88M2.53$11M$2.6812.80
Five Star Bancorp$131.69M4.95$45.67M$2.4512.46

In the previous week, Five Star Bancorp had 8 more articles in the media than Ohio Valley Banc. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Five Star Bancorp and 3 mentions for Ohio Valley Banc. Ohio Valley Banc's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Five Star Bancorp's score of 0.68 indicating that Ohio Valley Banc is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ohio Valley Banc
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Five Star Bancorp
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Five Star Bancorp has a net margin of 22.14% compared to Ohio Valley Banc's net margin of 13.86%. Five Star Bancorp's return on equity of 13.05% beat Ohio Valley Banc's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ohio Valley Banc13.86% 8.35% 0.85%
Five Star Bancorp 22.14%13.05%1.28%

Ohio Valley Banc pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Five Star Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Ohio Valley Banc pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Five Star Bancorp pays out 32.7% 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. Ohio Valley Banc has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Ohio Valley Banc is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

22.1% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Five Star Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.7% of Five Star Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Five Star Bancorp beats Ohio Valley Banc on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding OVBC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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OVBC vs. The Competition

MetricOhio Valley BancBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$161.59M$2.42B$12.39B$9.52B
Dividend Yield2.66%3.54%5.53%3.99%
P/E Ratio12.8011.5119.0520.02
Price / Sales2.532.4826.34104.32
Price / Cash14.6010.8321.8458.97
Price / Book1.071.192.275.90
Net Income$11M$174.52M$998.01M$258.50M
7 Day Performance-0.15%-1.99%0.78%2.12%
1 Month Performance15.33%3.49%4.25%12.62%
1 Year Performance48.48%6.12%540.71%19.25%

Ohio Valley Banc Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
OVBC
Ohio Valley Banc
2.6702 of 5 stars
$34.30
flat
N/A+50.1%$161.59M$63.88M12.80260Positive News
Earnings Report
FSBC
Five Star Bancorp
4.4346 of 5 stars
$30.25
+0.4%
$35.00
+15.7%
+4.6%$642.44M$213.40M13.27180News Coverage
Earnings Report
SMBC
Southern Missouri Bancorp
4.0578 of 5 stars
$56.90
+0.2%
$66.33
+16.6%
+12.5%$641.72M$273.22M11.40540News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
VEL
Velocity Financial
2.1028 of 5 stars
$17.62
+0.9%
$21.33
+21.1%
-7.9%$637.14M$135.80M8.43220
LDI
loanDepot
1.1155 of 5 stars
$1.94
+3.3%
$2.05
+5.6%
-4.0%$620.23M$1.06B-4.324,900News Coverage
Insider Trade
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
SMBK
SmartFinancial
2.9312 of 5 stars
$36.14
-0.4%
$33.70
-6.8%
+28.8%$617.24M$178.24M16.89550News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
CBNK
Capital Bancorp
4.0739 of 5 stars
$35.46
+1.1%
$34.50
-2.7%
+36.6%$584.15M$244.71M14.30270Upcoming Earnings
BITF
Bitfarms
3.0911 of 5 stars
$1.13
+8.7%
$3.95
+249.6%
-52.9%$579.85M$192.88M-5.95110Options Volume
MPB
Mid Penn Bancorp
4.4411 of 5 stars
$28.94
0.0%
$36.00
+24.4%
+0.8%$560.35M$309.08M10.05620News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
ALRS
Alerus Financial
4.4557 of 5 stars
$22.03
-0.1%
$23.00
+4.4%
-1.4%$559.57M$336.51M18.06840Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
SHBI
Shore Bancshares
4.7379 of 5 stars
$16.59
-0.7%
$20.00
+20.6%
+16.6%$557.35M$207.03M11.13450News Coverage
Earnings Report

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This page (NASDAQ:OVBC) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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