MVBF vs. OBT, BMRC, BSVN, FRST, LNKB, HMST, CZNC, JMSB, ORRF, and BSRR
Should you be buying MVB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MVB Financial include Orange County Bancorp (OBT), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), Bank7 (BSVN), Primis Financial (FRST), LINKBANCORP (LNKB), HomeStreet (HMST), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), John Marshall Bancorp (JMSB), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), and Sierra Bancorp (BSRR). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Orange County Bancorp (NASDAQ:OBT) and MVB Financial (NASDAQ:MVBF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
42.6% of Orange County Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.7% of MVB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.5% of Orange County Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of MVB Financial 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.
In the previous week, MVB Financial had 4 more articles in the media than Orange County Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for MVB Financial and 2 mentions for Orange County Bancorp. MVB Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Orange County Bancorp's score of -0.82 indicating that Orange County Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MVB Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Orange County Bancorp. Orange County Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MVB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Orange County Bancorp has a net margin of 22.47% compared to Orange County Bancorp's net margin of 11.10%. MVB Financial's return on equity of 22.06% beat Orange County Bancorp's return on equity.
Orange County Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $51.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.28%. MVB Financial has a consensus price target of $27.67, indicating a potential upside of 55.61%. Given Orange County Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MVB Financial is more favorable than Orange County Bancorp.
Orange County Bancorp has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MVB Financial has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
MVB Financial received 14 more outperform votes than Orange County Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 43.18% of users gave MVB Financial an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Orange County Bancorp an outperform vote.
Orange County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. MVB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Orange County Bancorp pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MVB Financial pays out 36.4% 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.
Summary
MVB Financial beats Orange County Bancorp on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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