AROW vs. BDGE, SHBI, ALRS, GNTY, SMBK, CAC, HAFC, CBNK, NEWT, and PFIS
Should you be buying Arrow Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arrow Financial include Bridge Bancorp (BDGE), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), Alerus Financial (ALRS), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), SmartFinancial (SMBK), Camden National (CAC), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), NewtekOne (NEWT), and Peoples Financial Services (PFIS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Arrow Financial (NASDAQ:AROW) and Bridge Bancorp (NASDAQ:BDGE) 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, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Bridge Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Arrow Financial. Bridge Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arrow Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
46.7% of Arrow Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of Bridge Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Arrow Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of Bridge Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Arrow Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Bridge Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Arrow Financial pays out 61.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bridge Bancorp pays out 37.1% 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. Bridge Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Arrow Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Bridge Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Arrow Financial and 0 mentions for Bridge Bancorp. Arrow Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Bridge Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Arrow Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bridge Bancorp has a net margin of 23.05% compared to Arrow Financial's net margin of 15.69%. Bridge Bancorp's return on equity of 9.83% beat Arrow Financial's return on equity.
Bridge Bancorp received 167 more outperform votes than Arrow Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.93% of users gave Bridge Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.97% of users gave Arrow Financial an outperform vote.
Arrow Financial has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridge Bancorp has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bridge Bancorp beats Arrow Financial on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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