OVLY vs. CHMG, COFS, CBAN, PKBK, BWFG, FFNW, MBCN, CALB, NWFL, and SBNY
Should you be buying Oak Valley Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oak Valley Bancorp include Chemung Financial (CHMG), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), California BanCorp (CALB), Norwood Financial (NWFL), and Signature Bank (SBNY). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Chemung Financial (NASDAQ:CHMG) and Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 35.34% compared to Oak Valley Bancorp's net margin of 18.17%. Chemung Financial's return on equity of 20.92% beat Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity.
Chemung Financial has a beta of 0.2, meaning that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Chemung Financial had 5 more articles in the media than Oak Valley Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Chemung Financial and 3 mentions for Oak Valley Bancorp. Chemung Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Oak Valley Bancorp's score of 0.14 indicating that Oak Valley Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chemung Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Chemung Financial pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 12.0% 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. Oak Valley Bancorp has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Oak Valley Bancorp received 27 more outperform votes than Chemung Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.18% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.30% of users gave Chemung Financial an outperform vote.
47.5% of Chemung Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 11.7% of Chemung Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Oak Valley Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chemung Financial. Oak Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemung Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Oak Valley Bancorp beats Chemung Financial on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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