SHBI vs. SMBK, AROW, GNTY, ALRS, NEWT, CBNK, CARE, FDBC, PFIS, and FISI
Should you be buying Shore Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shore Bancshares include SmartFinancial (SMBK), Arrow Financial (AROW), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Alerus Financial (ALRS), NewtekOne (NEWT), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Carter Bankshares (CARE), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), and Financial Institutions (FISI). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Shore Bancshares (NASDAQ:SHBI) and SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.
Shore Bancshares has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SmartFinancial has a net margin of 11.90% compared to Shore Bancshares' net margin of 5.82%. SmartFinancial's return on equity of 7.67% beat Shore Bancshares' return on equity.
Shore Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 58.26%. SmartFinancial has a consensus target price of $26.50, indicating a potential upside of 38.74%. Given Shore Bancshares' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Shore Bancshares is more favorable than SmartFinancial.
SmartFinancial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Shore Bancshares. SmartFinancial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shore Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.8% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Shore Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Shore Bancshares and 1 mentions for SmartFinancial. Shore Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat SmartFinancial's score of 0.00 indicating that Shore Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shore Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Shore Bancshares pays out 73.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SmartFinancial pays out 18.9% 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.
SmartFinancial received 2 more outperform votes than Shore Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.62% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 57.10% of users gave Shore Bancshares an outperform vote.
Summary
Shore Bancshares beats SmartFinancial on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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