ALRS vs. AROW, BDGE, SMBK, SHBI, GNTY, CAC, NEWT, HAFC, CARE, and CBNK
Should you be buying Alerus Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alerus Financial include Arrow Financial (AROW), Bridge Bancorp (BDGE), SmartFinancial (SMBK), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Camden National (CAC), NewtekOne (NEWT), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Carter Bankshares (CARE), and Capital Bancorp (CBNK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Arrow Financial (NASDAQ:AROW) and Alerus Financial (NASDAQ:ALRS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Alerus Financial has a consensus price target of $23.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.58%. Given Arrow Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alerus Financial is more favorable than Arrow Financial.
Arrow Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Alerus Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. 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 has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Alerus Financial has raised its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Arrow Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Arrow Financial received 109 more outperform votes than Alerus Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.49% of users gave Arrow Financial an outperform vote while only 20.59% of users gave Alerus Financial an outperform vote.
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.
Arrow Financial has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alerus Financial has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Arrow Financial has a net margin of 14.34% compared to Arrow Financial's net margin of 3.54%. Arrow Financial's return on equity of 8.13% beat Alerus Financial's return on equity.
46.7% of Arrow Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.3% of Alerus Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of Arrow Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Alerus Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Arrow Financial had 6 more articles in the media than Alerus Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Arrow Financial and 3 mentions for Alerus Financial. Arrow Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Alerus Financial's score of 0.99 indicating that Alerus Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Arrow Financial beats Alerus Financial on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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