SBNY vs. NWFL, OVLY, PKBK, FVCB, CBAN, CHMG, HMST, FFNW, BWFG, and COFS
Should you be buying Signature Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Signature Bank include Norwood Financial (NWFL), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), Chemung Financial (CHMG), HomeStreet (HMST), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), and ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Norwood Financial (NASDAQ:NWFL) and Signature Bank (NASDAQ:SBNY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Norwood Financial has a net margin of 14.14% compared to Norwood Financial's net margin of 0.00%. Signature Bank's return on equity of 8.80% beat Norwood Financial's return on equity.
Norwood Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Signature Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.9%. Norwood Financial pays out 62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Norwood Financial has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Signature Bank has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
28.1% of Norwood Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.1% of Signature Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Norwood Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Signature Bank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Norwood Financial has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Signature Bank has a beta of 9.58, suggesting that its stock price is 858% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Norwood Financial received 122 more outperform votes than Signature Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.21% of users gave Norwood Financial an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Signature Bank an outperform vote.
Signature Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Norwood Financial.
In the previous week, Signature Bank had 1 more articles in the media than Norwood Financial. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Signature Bank and 0 mentions for Norwood Financial. Signature Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Norwood Financial'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Norwood Financial beats Signature Bank on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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