OBT vs. PFBC, PEBO, BY, OBK, OBNK, GABC, QCRH, LBAI, SBSI, and AMAL
Should you be buying Orange County Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orange County Bancorp include Preferred Bank (PFBC), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), Byline Bancorp (BY), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), German American Bancorp (GABC), QCR (QCRH), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), and Amalgamated Financial (AMAL). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Preferred Bank (NASDAQ:PFBC) and Orange County Bancorp (NASDAQ:OBT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Preferred Bank has a net margin of 28.70% compared to Preferred Bank's net margin of 26.05%. Preferred Bank's return on equity of 22.70% beat Orange County Bancorp's return on equity.
Preferred Bank pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Orange County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Preferred Bank pays out 27.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Orange County Bancorp pays out 14.6% 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. Preferred Bank has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Preferred Bank is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Preferred Bank currently has a consensus target price of $67.00, suggesting a potential downside of 10.33%. Orange County Bancorp has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.02%. Given Preferred Bank's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Orange County Bancorp is more favorable than Preferred Bank.
72.8% of Preferred Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.6% of Orange County Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Orange County Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Preferred Bank had 1 more articles in the media than Orange County Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Preferred Bank and 2 mentions for Orange County Bancorp. Orange County Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Preferred Bank's score of 0.54 indicating that Preferred Bank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Preferred Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Orange County Bancorp. Preferred Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orange County Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Preferred Bank has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orange County Bancorp has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Preferred Bank received 320 more outperform votes than Orange County Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.46% of users gave Preferred Bank an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Orange County Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Preferred Bank beats Orange County Bancorp on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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