SMBK vs. PFHD, HAFC, PFIS, AMNB, FNLC, CHCO, NWBI, NBHC, CASH, and FCF
Should you be buying SmartFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartFinancial include Professional (PFHD), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), American National Bankshares (AMNB), First Bancorp (FNLC), City (CHCO), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), National Bank (NBHC), Pathward Financial (CASH), and First Commonwealth Financial (FCF).
SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and Professional (NASDAQ:PFHD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Professional shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.7% of SmartFinancial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Professional shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SmartFinancial has higher revenue and earnings than Professional. SmartFinancial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Professional, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Professional has a net margin of 20.67% compared to SmartFinancial's net margin of 10.65%. Professional's return on equity of 10.57% beat SmartFinancial's return on equity.
SmartFinancial currently has a consensus price target of $25.60, indicating a potential upside of 10.63%. Given SmartFinancial's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe SmartFinancial is more favorable than Professional.
SmartFinancial received 172 more outperform votes than Professional when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.64% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Professional an outperform vote.
SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Professional has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Professional had 8 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Professional and 3 mentions for SmartFinancial. SmartFinancial's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Professional's score of 0.00 indicating that SmartFinancial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SmartFinancial beats Professional on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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