NWFL vs. PKBK, BWFG, COFS, CBAN, FFNW, FVCB, SBNY, OVLY, USCB, and MBCN
Should you be buying Norwood Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norwood Financial include Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Signature Bank (SBNY), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), USCB Financial (USCB), and Middlefield Banc (MBCN). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Parke Bancorp (NASDAQ:PKBK) and Norwood Financial (NASDAQ:NWFL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Parke Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Norwood Financial. Parke Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Norwood Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Parke Bancorp has a net margin of 19.22% compared to Parke Bancorp's net margin of 14.14%. Norwood Financial's return on equity of 10.99% beat Parke Bancorp's return on equity.
49.7% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.1% of Norwood Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 15.5% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Norwood Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Parke Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Norwood Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Parke Bancorp pays out 37.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Norwood Financial pays out 62.8% 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. Norwood Financial has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Norwood Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Parke Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwood Financial has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Parke Bancorp received 14 more outperform votes than Norwood Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.87% of users gave Norwood Financial an outperform vote while only 60.71% of users gave Parke Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Norwood Financial had 4 more articles in the media than Parke Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Norwood Financial and 5 mentions for Parke Bancorp. Norwood Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Parke Bancorp's score of 0.21 indicating that Parke Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Parke Bancorp beats Norwood Financial on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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