OVLY vs. CHMG, BWFG, BOCH, CFFI, TCFC, CNOB, MBWM, UVSP, MCBS, and FCBC
Should you be buying Oak Valley Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oak Valley Bancorp include Chemung Financial (CHMG), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), Bank of Commerce (BOCH), C&F Financial (CFFI), Community Financial (TCFC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Univest Financial (UVSP), MetroCity Bankshares (MCBS), and First Community Bankshares (FCBC).
Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) and Chemung Financial (NASDAQ:CHMG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chemung Financial has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Chemung Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chemung Financial pays out 23.8% 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, Chemung Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Oak Valley Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Chemung Financial and 4 mentions for Oak Valley Bancorp. Oak Valley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Chemung Financial's score of -0.21 indicating that Oak Valley Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
30.9% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.5% of Chemung Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.0% of Chemung Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Chemung Financial has a consensus target price of $49.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.43%. Given Chemung Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chemung Financial is more favorable than Oak Valley Bancorp.
Oak Valley Bancorp received 27 more outperform votes than Chemung Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.10% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.11% of users gave Chemung Financial an outperform vote.
Oak Valley Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 31.38% compared to Chemung Financial's net margin of 16.02%. Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity of 15.92% beat Chemung Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Oak Valley Bancorp beats Chemung Financial on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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