MBCN vs. OVLY, CBAN, COFS, HMST, PKBK, BWFG, FFNW, SBNY, CALB, and NWFL
Should you be buying Middlefield Banc stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Middlefield Banc include Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), HomeStreet (HMST), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), Signature Bank (SBNY), California BanCorp (CALB), and Norwood Financial (NWFL). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) and Middlefield Banc (NASDAQ:MBCN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Middlefield Banc has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
30.9% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Middlefield Banc shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.6% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Middlefield Banc shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Middlefield Banc received 28 more outperform votes than Oak Valley Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.75% of users gave Middlefield Banc an outperform vote while only 55.00% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote.
Oak Valley Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Middlefield Banc. Oak Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Middlefield Banc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Middlefield Banc had 4 more articles in the media than Oak Valley Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Middlefield Banc and 1 mentions for Oak Valley Bancorp. Middlefield Banc's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Oak Valley Bancorp's score of 0.52 indicating that Oak Valley Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Middlefield Banc pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Middlefield Banc pays out 39.0% 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. Oak Valley Bancorp has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Middlefield Banc has a consensus price target of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.99%. Given Oak Valley Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Middlefield Banc is more favorable than Oak Valley Bancorp.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 35.34% compared to Oak Valley Bancorp's net margin of 16.41%. Middlefield Banc's return on equity of 18.30% beat Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Oak Valley Bancorp beats Middlefield Banc on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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