LNKB vs. JMSB, SSBK, MVBF, BMRC, FRBA, USCB, FRST, CIVB, BCML, and UNTY
Should you be buying LINKBANCORP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LINKBANCORP include John Marshall Bancorp (JMSB), Southern States Bancshares (SSBK), MVB Financial (MVBF), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), First Bank (FRBA), USCB Financial (USCB), Primis Financial (FRST), Civista Bancshares (CIVB), BayCom (BCML), and Unity Bancorp (UNTY). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
John Marshall Bancorp (NASDAQ:JMSB) and LINKBANCORP (NASDAQ:LNKB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
John Marshall Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than LINKBANCORP. LINKBANCORP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than John Marshall Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
John Marshall Bancorp has a net margin of 3.42% compared to John Marshall Bancorp's net margin of -5.10%. LINKBANCORP's return on equity of 7.82% beat John Marshall Bancorp's return on equity.
John Marshall Bancorp has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LINKBANCORP has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
39.1% of John Marshall Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.5% of LINKBANCORP shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of John Marshall Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.8% of LINKBANCORP shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
John Marshall Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. LINKBANCORP pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. John Marshall Bancorp pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LINKBANCORP pays out -115.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LINKBANCORP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
LINKBANCORP has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.28%. Given John Marshall Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LINKBANCORP is more favorable than John Marshall Bancorp.
John Marshall Bancorp received 51 more outperform votes than LINKBANCORP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.97% of users gave John Marshall Bancorp an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave LINKBANCORP an outperform vote.
In the previous week, LINKBANCORP had 8 more articles in the media than John Marshall Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for LINKBANCORP and 0 mentions for John Marshall Bancorp. John Marshall Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat LINKBANCORP's score of 0.00 indicating that LINKBANCORP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
John Marshall Bancorp beats LINKBANCORP on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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