BWFG vs. PKBK, NWFL, FVCB, SBNY, COFS, CBAN, OVLY, USCB, CHMG, and FFNW
Should you be buying Bankwell Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bankwell Financial Group include Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Norwood Financial (NWFL), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Signature Bank (SBNY), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), USCB Financial (USCB), Chemung Financial (CHMG), and First Financial Northwest (FFNW). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Parke Bancorp (NASDAQ:PKBK) and Bankwell Financial Group (NASDAQ:BWFG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
49.7% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.8% of Bankwell Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 15.3% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of Bankwell Financial Group shares are held by 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.
Bankwell Financial Group received 47 more outperform votes than Parke Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.10% of users gave Bankwell Financial Group an outperform vote while only 60.71% of users gave Parke Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Parke Bancorp and Parke Bancorp both had 1 articles in the media. Bankwell Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Parke Bancorp's score of 0.80 indicating that Parke Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Parke Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Bankwell Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Parke Bancorp pays out 37.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bankwell Financial Group pays out 20.8% 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.
Parke Bancorp has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bankwell Financial Group has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bankwell Financial Group has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.00%. Given Parke Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bankwell Financial Group is more favorable than Parke Bancorp.
Parke Bancorp has a net margin of 19.22% compared to Parke Bancorp's net margin of 15.28%. Parke Bancorp's return on equity of 11.67% beat Bankwell Financial Group's return on equity.
Bankwell Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Parke Bancorp. Bankwell Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parke Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bankwell Financial Group beats Parke Bancorp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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