CFFI vs. EBMT, BWFG, OVLY, SBFG, CHMG, CPF, EGBN, HBNC, HTBK, and HTBI
Should you be buying C&F Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of C&F Financial include Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), SB Financial Group (SBFG), Chemung Financial (CHMG), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), and HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Eagle Bancorp Montana (NASDAQ:EBMT) and C&F Financial (NASDAQ:CFFI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
C&F Financial has a net margin of 13.29% compared to C&F Financial's net margin of 7.39%. Eagle Bancorp Montana's return on equity of 9.89% beat C&F Financial's return on equity.
Eagle Bancorp Montana has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, C&F Financial has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Bancorp Montana pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. C&F Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Eagle Bancorp Montana pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. C&F Financial pays out 29.0% 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. Eagle Bancorp Montana has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and C&F Financial has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Eagle Bancorp Montana is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
35.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.2% of C&F Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of C&F Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp Montana had 4 more articles in the media than C&F Financial. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Eagle Bancorp Montana and 3 mentions for C&F Financial. C&F Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Eagle Bancorp Montana's score of 0.49 indicating that Eagle Bancorp Montana is being referred to more favorably in the media.
C&F Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bancorp Montana. C&F Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Bancorp Montana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Bancorp Montana currently has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.66%. Given C&F Financial's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Eagle Bancorp Montana is more favorable than C&F Financial.
C&F Financial received 28 more outperform votes than Eagle Bancorp Montana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave C&F Financial an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Eagle Bancorp Montana an outperform vote.
Summary
C&F Financial beats Eagle Bancorp Montana on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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