SBFG vs. EBMT, AUBN, CFFI, PEBK, MBCN, SMMF, FFIC, MPB, RBB, and MOFG
Should you be buying SB Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SB Financial Group include Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), Auburn National Bancorporation (AUBN), C&F Financial (CFFI), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), RBB Bancorp (RBB), and MidWestOne Financial Group (MOFG). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Eagle Bancorp Montana (NASDAQ:EBMT) and SB Financial Group (NASDAQ:SBFG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
SB Financial Group has a net margin of 15.47% compared to SB Financial Group's net margin of 7.39%. Eagle Bancorp Montana's return on equity of 10.00% beat SB Financial Group's return on equity.
35.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.7% of SB Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of SB Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp Montana had 7 more articles in the media than SB Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Eagle Bancorp Montana and 5 mentions for SB Financial Group. Eagle Bancorp Montana's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat SB Financial Group's score of 0.74 indicating that SB Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SB Financial Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Eagle Bancorp Montana. SB Financial Group 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 pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. SB Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Eagle Bancorp Montana pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SB Financial Group pays out 32.0% 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 SB Financial Group has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Eagle Bancorp Montana is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eagle Bancorp Montana received 23 more outperform votes than SB Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 45.13% of users gave Eagle Bancorp Montana an outperform vote while only 41.37% of users gave SB Financial Group an outperform vote.
Eagle Bancorp Montana presently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.90%. Given SB Financial Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Eagle Bancorp Montana is more favorable than SB Financial Group.
Eagle Bancorp Montana has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SB Financial Group has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SB Financial Group beats Eagle Bancorp Montana on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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