MPB vs. HBMD, ACNB, CVCY, MVBF, MFSF, CUBI, RBCAA, SYBT, FBNC, and BUSE
Should you be buying Mid Penn Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mid Penn Bancorp include Howard Bancorp (HBMD), ACNB (ACNB), Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY), MVB Financial (MVBF), MutualFirst Financial (MFSF), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), First Bancorp (FBNC), and First Busey (BUSE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Mid Penn Bancorp (NASDAQ:MPB) and Howard Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBMD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Mid Penn Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.50%. Given Mid Penn Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Mid Penn Bancorp is more favorable than Howard Bancorp.
Howard Bancorp received 84 more outperform votes than Mid Penn Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.37% of users gave Mid Penn Bancorp an outperform vote while only 46.96% of users gave Howard Bancorp an outperform vote.
Howard Bancorp has a net margin of 26.00% compared to Mid Penn Bancorp's net margin of 13.89%. Howard Bancorp's return on equity of 8.51% beat Mid Penn Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Mid Penn Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Howard Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Mid Penn Bancorp and 1 mentions for Howard Bancorp. Mid Penn Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Howard Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Mid Penn Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mid Penn Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Howard Bancorp. Mid Penn Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Howard Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
43.1% of Mid Penn Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.5% of Howard Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Mid Penn Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.9% of Howard Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Mid Penn Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Howard Bancorp has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Howard Bancorp beats Mid Penn Bancorp on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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