AMAL vs. FMBH, CNOB, PFC, CTBI, SBSI, LBAI, UVSP, OSBC, FCBC, and CFB
Should you be buying Amalgamated Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amalgamated Financial include First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Premier Financial (PFC), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Univest Financial (UVSP), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), and CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
First Mid Bancshares (NASDAQ:FMBH) and Amalgamated Financial (NASDAQ:AMAL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
47.6% of First Mid Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.7% of First Mid Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are owned by company 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.
First Mid Bancshares has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amalgamated Financial has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
First Mid Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $37.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.38%. Amalgamated Financial has a consensus price target of $29.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.39%. Given First Mid Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amalgamated Financial is more favorable than First Mid Bancshares.
Amalgamated Financial has a net margin of 23.22% compared to Amalgamated Financial's net margin of 17.01%. First Mid Bancshares' return on equity of 16.34% beat Amalgamated Financial's return on equity.
First Mid Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Amalgamated Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. First Mid Bancshares pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amalgamated Financial pays out 15.7% 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. First Mid Bancshares has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Amalgamated Financial has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
First Mid Bancshares received 98 more outperform votes than Amalgamated Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.63% of users gave Amalgamated Financial an outperform vote while only 52.23% of users gave First Mid Bancshares an outperform vote.
Amalgamated Financial has higher revenue and earnings than First Mid Bancshares. Amalgamated Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than First Mid Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, First Mid Bancshares and First Mid Bancshares both had 2 articles in the media. Amalgamated Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat First Mid Bancshares' score of -0.01 indicating that First Mid Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Amalgamated Financial beats First Mid Bancshares on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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