CNOB vs. CARO, GSBC, ABTX, LBAI, HBNC, FIBK, CATY, FHB, BOH, and CVBF
Should you be buying ConnectOne Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ConnectOne Bancorp include Carolina Financial (CARO), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), Allegiance Bancshares (ABTX), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Hawaiian (FHB), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), and CVB Financial (CVBF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
ConnectOne Bancorp (NASDAQ:CNOB) and Carolina Financial (NASDAQ:CARO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.
67.7% of ConnectOne Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Carolina Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of ConnectOne Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Carolina Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Carolina Financial received 12 more outperform votes than ConnectOne Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.54% of users gave Carolina Financial an outperform vote while only 58.82% of users gave ConnectOne Bancorp an outperform vote.
ConnectOne Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $24.50, indicating a potential upside of 28.74%. Given ConnectOne Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe ConnectOne Bancorp is more favorable than Carolina Financial.
ConnectOne Bancorp has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carolina Financial has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ConnectOne Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Carolina Financial. ConnectOne Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carolina Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carolina Financial has a net margin of 27.98% compared to ConnectOne Bancorp's net margin of 15.29%. Carolina Financial's return on equity of 10.49% beat ConnectOne Bancorp's return on equity.
ConnectOne Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Carolina Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. ConnectOne Bancorp pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carolina Financial pays out 13.6% 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.
In the previous week, Carolina Financial had 21 more articles in the media than ConnectOne Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Carolina Financial and 3 mentions for ConnectOne Bancorp. ConnectOne Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Carolina Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that ConnectOne Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Carolina Financial beats ConnectOne Bancorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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