SMBK vs. SHBI, AROW, ALRS, GNTY, NEWT, CARE, CAC, CBNK, FDBC, and FISI
Should you be buying SmartFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartFinancial include Shore Bancshares (SHBI), Arrow Financial (AROW), Alerus Financial (ALRS), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), NewtekOne (NEWT), Carter Bankshares (CARE), Camden National (CAC), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), 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 superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Shore Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.25%. SmartFinancial has a consensus target price of $25.40, indicating a potential upside of 10.43%. Given SmartFinancial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Shore Bancshares is more favorable than SmartFinancial.
59.8% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of SmartFinancial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Shore Bancshares has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SmartFinancial received 4 more outperform votes than Shore Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.51% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 56.92% of users gave Shore Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Shore Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Shore Bancshares and 2 mentions for SmartFinancial. SmartFinancial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Shore Bancshares' score of 0.84 indicating that Shore Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SmartFinancial has a net margin of 10.65% compared to SmartFinancial's net margin of 5.66%. SmartFinancial's return on equity of 7.33% beat Shore Bancshares' return on equity.
Shore Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Shore Bancshares pays out 82.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SmartFinancial pays out 20.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SmartFinancial has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
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.
Summary
SmartFinancial beats Shore Bancshares on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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