OPBK vs. PWOD, CFFI, CWBC, FINW, ISTR, MNSB, PEBK, RMBI, FCCO, and HNVR
Should you be buying OP Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OP Bancorp include Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), C&F Financial (CFFI), Community West Bancshares (CWBC), FinWise Bancorp (FINW), Investar (ISTR), MainStreet Bancshares (MNSB), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (RMBI), First Community (FCCO), and Hanover Bancorp (HNVR). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Penns Woods Bancorp (NASDAQ:PWOD) and OP Bancorp (NASDAQ:OPBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
27.9% of Penns Woods Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of OP Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Penns Woods Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.9% of OP Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Penns Woods Bancorp has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OP Bancorp has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Penns Woods Bancorp received 25 more outperform votes than OP Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.24% of users gave OP Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.86% of users gave Penns Woods Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Penns Woods Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than OP Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Penns Woods Bancorp and 0 mentions for OP Bancorp. OP Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Penns Woods Bancorp's score of 0.44 indicating that Penns Woods Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OP Bancorp has a net margin of 15.50% compared to OP Bancorp's net margin of 14.79%. Penns Woods Bancorp's return on equity of 11.56% beat OP Bancorp's return on equity.
Penns Woods Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. OP Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Penns Woods Bancorp pays out 58.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OP Bancorp pays out 34.3% 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.
OP Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Penns Woods Bancorp. OP Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Penns Woods Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
OP Bancorp beats Penns Woods Bancorp on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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