PKBK vs. OVLY, NWFL, CHMG, SBNY, CBAN, FVCB, BWFG, CALB, MBCN, and USCB
Should you be buying Parke Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parke Bancorp include Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), Norwood Financial (NWFL), Chemung Financial (CHMG), Signature Bank (SBNY), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), California BanCorp (CALB), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), and USCB Financial (USCB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Parke Bancorp (NASDAQ:PKBK) and Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.
49.7% of Parke Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.3% of Parke Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of Oak Valley Bancorp 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.
Parke Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Oak Valley Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Parke Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Oak Valley Bancorp and 4 mentions for Parke Bancorp. Oak Valley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Parke Bancorp's score of 0.34 indicating that Oak Valley Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Oak Valley Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Parke Bancorp. Oak Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parke Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Parke Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Parke Bancorp pays out 37.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 13.6% 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 a net margin of 35.34% compared to Parke Bancorp's net margin of 19.22%. Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity of 18.30% beat Parke Bancorp's return on equity.
Oak Valley Bancorp received 29 more outperform votes than Parke Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.71% of users gave Parke Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.00% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Oak Valley Bancorp beats Parke Bancorp on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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