OPBK vs. CWBC, ISTR, CFFI, PEBK, PWOD, FINW, MYFW, RMBI, MNSB, and FRAF
Should you be buying OP Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OP Bancorp include Community West Bancshares (CWBC), Investar (ISTR), C&F Financial (CFFI), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), FinWise Bancorp (FINW), First Western Financial (MYFW), Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (RMBI), MainStreet Bancshares (MNSB), and Franklin Financial Services (FRAF). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
OP Bancorp (NASDAQ:OPBK) and Community West Bancshares (NASDAQ:CWBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Community West Bancshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than OP Bancorp. OP Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community West Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OP Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Community West Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. OP Bancorp pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community West Bancshares pays out 25.4% 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.
Community West Bancshares has a net margin of 20.04% compared to OP Bancorp's net margin of 15.50%. Community West Bancshares' return on equity of 11.58% beat OP Bancorp's return on equity.
53.6% of OP Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Community West Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 24.9% of OP Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of Community West Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Community West Bancshares has a consensus target price of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 18.70%. Given Community West Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Community West Bancshares is more favorable than OP Bancorp.
OP Bancorp has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community West Bancshares has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Community West Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than OP Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Community West Bancshares and 2 mentions for OP Bancorp. Community West Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat OP Bancorp's score of 0.44 indicating that Community West Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Community West Bancshares received 80 more outperform votes than OP Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.26% of users gave Community West Bancshares an outperform vote while only 55.24% of users gave OP Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Community West Bancshares beats OP Bancorp on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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