AROW vs. ALRS, BDGE, CAC, GNTY, FISI, ICE, CME, MCO, IBKR, and MSCI
Should you be buying Arrow Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arrow Financial include Alerus Financial (ALRS), Bridge Bancorp (BDGE), Camden National (CAC), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Financial Institutions (FISI), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Moody's (MCO), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), and MSCI (MSCI).
Arrow Financial (NASDAQ:AROW) and Alerus Financial (NASDAQ:ALRS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Alerus Financial has a consensus target price of $23.17, suggesting a potential upside of 19.79%. Given Alerus Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alerus Financial is more favorable than Arrow Financial.
Arrow Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alerus Financial. Arrow Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alerus Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Arrow Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Alerus Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Arrow Financial and 3 mentions for Alerus Financial. Arrow Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Alerus Financial's score of 1.24 indicating that Arrow Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arrow Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Alerus Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Arrow Financial pays out 62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alerus Financial pays out 155.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Arrow Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Arrow Financial has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alerus Financial has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arrow Financial received 108 more outperform votes than Alerus Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.49% of users gave Arrow Financial an outperform vote while only 22.22% of users gave Alerus Financial an outperform vote.
Arrow Financial has a net margin of 14.34% compared to Alerus Financial's net margin of 3.54%. Alerus Financial's return on equity of 8.13% beat Arrow Financial's return on equity.
46.7% of Arrow Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.3% of Alerus Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Arrow Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Alerus Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Arrow Financial beats Alerus Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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