CHMG vs. OVLY, PKBK, BOCH, ISTR, TCFC, SBSI, AMAL, FMBH, CTBI, and CNOB
Should you be buying Chemung Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chemung Financial include Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Bank of Commerce (BOCH), Investar (ISTR), Community Financial (TCFC), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), and ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB).
Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) and Chemung Financial (NASDAQ:CHMG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 31.38% compared to Oak Valley Bancorp's net margin of 17.35%. Chemung Financial's return on equity of 17.78% beat Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Oak Valley Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Chemung Financial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Oak Valley Bancorp and 3 mentions for Chemung Financial. Oak Valley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Chemung Financial's score of 0.98 indicating that Chemung Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Chemung Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. 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. Oak Valley Bancorp has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Oak Valley Bancorp received 27 more outperform votes than Chemung Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.46% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.11% of users gave Chemung Financial an outperform vote.
Chemung Financial has a consensus target price of $49.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.90%. Given Oak Valley Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chemung Financial is more favorable than Oak Valley Bancorp.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chemung Financial has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 12.0% of Chemung Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Oak Valley Bancorp beats Chemung Financial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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