FVCB vs. NWFL, PKBK, CBAN, CHMG, CZFS, COFS, OVLY, FFNW, HMST, and BWFG
Should you be buying FVCBankcorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FVCBankcorp include Norwood Financial (NWFL), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), Chemung Financial (CHMG), Citizens Financial Services (CZFS), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), HomeStreet (HMST), and Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
FVCBankcorp (NASDAQ:FVCB) and Norwood Financial (NASDAQ:NWFL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
FVCBankcorp presently has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.64%. Given FVCBankcorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe FVCBankcorp is more favorable than Norwood Financial.
43.6% of FVCBankcorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.1% of Norwood Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 14.0% of FVCBankcorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Norwood Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Norwood Financial received 108 more outperform votes than FVCBankcorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.21% of users gave Norwood Financial an outperform vote while only 56.00% of users gave FVCBankcorp an outperform vote.
FVCBankcorp has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwood Financial has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Norwood Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FVCBankcorp. Norwood Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FVCBankcorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Norwood Financial has a net margin of 14.14% compared to FVCBankcorp's net margin of 4.55%. Norwood Financial's return on equity of 8.80% beat FVCBankcorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, FVCBankcorp had 5 more articles in the media than Norwood Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for FVCBankcorp and 0 mentions for Norwood Financial. FVCBankcorp's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Norwood Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that FVCBankcorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Norwood Financial beats FVCBankcorp on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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