OPBK vs. OVBC, FRAF, UNB, FFNW, CIZN, CPF, TRST, HBNC, IBCP, and BFST
Should you be buying OP Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OP Bancorp include Ohio Valley Banc (OVBC), Franklin Financial Services (FRAF), Union Bankshares (UNB), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), Citizens (CIZN), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Independent Bank (IBCP), and Business First Bancshares (BFST). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
OP Bancorp (NASDAQ:OPBK) and Ohio Valley Banc (NASDAQ:OVBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk and valuation.
In the previous week, Ohio Valley Banc had 1 more articles in the media than OP Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ohio Valley Banc and 4 mentions for OP Bancorp. Ohio Valley Banc's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat OP Bancorp's score of 0.84 indicating that Ohio Valley Banc is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OP Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Ohio Valley Banc pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. OP Bancorp pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ohio Valley Banc pays out 36.5% 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. OP Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
OP Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Ohio Valley Banc. OP Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ohio Valley Banc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ohio Valley Banc received 16 more outperform votes than OP Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.24% of users gave OP Bancorp an outperform vote while only 32.46% of users gave Ohio Valley Banc an outperform vote.
53.6% of OP Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.3% of OP Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
OP Bancorp has a net margin of 15.50% compared to Ohio Valley Banc's net margin of 14.70%. OP Bancorp's return on equity of 11.44% beat Ohio Valley Banc's return on equity.
OP Bancorp has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ohio Valley Banc has a beta of 0.11, meaning that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
OP Bancorp beats Ohio Valley Banc on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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