BSVN vs. UNTY, CZNC, ACNB, OBT, INBK, ORRF, FRST, WTBA, FBIZ, and BMRC
Should you be buying Bank7 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank7 include Unity Bancorp (UNTY), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), ACNB (ACNB), Orange County Bancorp (OBT), First Internet Bancorp (INBK), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), Primis Financial (FRST), West Bancorporation (WTBA), First Business Financial Services (FBIZ), and Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Bank7 (NASDAQ:BSVN) and Unity Bancorp (NASDAQ:UNTY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends and earnings.
Bank7 has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unity Bancorp has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Unity Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Bank7. Unity Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank7, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank7 pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Unity Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Bank7 pays out 26.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unity Bancorp pays out 13.6% 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.
Unity Bancorp has a net margin of 24.92% compared to Bank7's net margin of 21.70%. Bank7's return on equity of 17.97% beat Unity Bancorp's return on equity.
23.5% of Bank7 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.3% of Unity Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 41.9% of Bank7 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.9% of Unity Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Unity Bancorp received 87 more outperform votes than Bank7 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.02% of users gave Unity Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.72% of users gave Bank7 an outperform vote.
Bank7 presently has a consensus price target of $32.67, suggesting a potential upside of 8.67%. Given Bank7's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bank7 is more favorable than Unity Bancorp.
In the previous week, Unity Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Bank7. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Unity Bancorp and 2 mentions for Bank7. Bank7's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Unity Bancorp's score of 0.96 indicating that Bank7 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Bank7 beats Unity Bancorp on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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