MOFG vs. EBTC, WTBA, BSRR, CZNC, CCNE, BMRC, THFF, WASH, CCBG, and FMNB
Should you be buying MidWestOne Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MidWestOne Financial Group include Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Sierra Bancorp (BSRR), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), CNB Financial (CCNE), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), First Financial (THFF), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), and Farmers National Banc (FMNB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Enterprise Bancorp (NASDAQ:EBTC) and MidWestOne Financial Group (NASDAQ:MOFG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Enterprise Bancorp has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MidWestOne Financial Group has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MidWestOne Financial Group. Enterprise Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MidWestOne Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MidWestOne Financial Group has a consensus price target of $24.13, suggesting a potential upside of 13.00%. Given Enterprise Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MidWestOne Financial Group is more favorable than Enterprise Bancorp.
Enterprise Bancorp received 28 more outperform votes than MidWestOne Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.89% of users gave Enterprise Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.12% of users gave MidWestOne Financial Group an outperform vote.
38.9% of Enterprise Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.4% of MidWestOne Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 21.7% of Enterprise Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of MidWestOne Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Enterprise Bancorp has a net margin of 15.80% compared to Enterprise Bancorp's net margin of 7.78%. MidWestOne Financial Group's return on equity of 11.47% beat Enterprise Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, MidWestOne Financial Group had 9 more articles in the media than Enterprise Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for MidWestOne Financial Group and 2 mentions for Enterprise Bancorp. MidWestOne Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Enterprise Bancorp's score of 0.36 indicating that Enterprise Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Enterprise Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. MidWestOne Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Enterprise Bancorp pays out 33.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MidWestOne Financial Group pays out 67.4% 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. Enterprise Bancorp has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and MidWestOne Financial Group has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. MidWestOne Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Enterprise Bancorp beats MidWestOne Financial Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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