OVLY vs. PKBK, NWFL, CHMG, SBNY, CBAN, FVCB, BWFG, CALB, MBCN, and USCB
Should you be buying Oak Valley Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oak Valley Bancorp include Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Norwood Financial (NWFL), Chemung Financial (CHMG), Signature Bank (SBNY), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), California BanCorp (CALB), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), and USCB Financial (USCB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Parke Bancorp (NASDAQ:PKBK) and Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Parke Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Oak Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 35.34% compared to Oak Valley Bancorp's net margin of 19.22%. Parke Bancorp's return on equity of 18.30% beat Oak Valley Bancorp's return on equity.
Oak Valley Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Parke Bancorp. Oak Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parke Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Oak Valley Bancorp received 29 more outperform votes than Parke Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.71% of users gave Parke Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.00% of users gave Oak Valley Bancorp an outperform vote.
49.7% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 15.3% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers 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%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Parke Bancorp pays out 37.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 13.6% 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.
In the previous week, Parke Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Oak Valley Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Parke Bancorp and 4 mentions for Oak Valley Bancorp. Oak Valley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Parke Bancorp's score of 0.51 indicating that Parke Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Parke Bancorp and Oak Valley Bancorp tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Oak Valley Bancorp News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for OVLY and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding OVLY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Oak Valley Bancorp Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
