UNB vs. OVBC, CBFV, FRAF, CIZN, FFNW, CCNE, FFIC, SMMF, MPB, and RBB
Should you be buying Union Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Union Bankshares include Ohio Valley Banc (OVBC), CB Financial Services (CBFV), Franklin Financial Services (FRAF), Citizens (CIZN), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), CNB Financial (CCNE), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), and RBB Bancorp (RBB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Ohio Valley Banc (NASDAQ:OVBC) and Union Bankshares (NASDAQ:UNB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Ohio Valley Banc has a beta of 0.11, indicating that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Union Bankshares has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
22.1% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.8% of Union Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Union Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ohio Valley Banc pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Union Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Ohio Valley Banc pays out 36.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Union Bankshares pays out 60.8% 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. Ohio Valley Banc has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Union Bankshares has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Union Bankshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Ohio Valley Banc and Ohio Valley Banc both had 4 articles in the media. Ohio Valley Banc's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Union Bankshares' score of 1.19 indicating that Union Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Union Bankshares received 127 more outperform votes than Ohio Valley Banc when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.62% of users gave Union Bankshares an outperform vote while only 32.46% of users gave Ohio Valley Banc an outperform vote.
Ohio Valley Banc has higher revenue and earnings than Union Bankshares. Union Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ohio Valley Banc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Union Bankshares has a net margin of 15.19% compared to Union Bankshares' net margin of 14.70%. Ohio Valley Banc's return on equity of 17.85% beat Union Bankshares' return on equity.
Summary
Ohio Valley Banc beats Union Bankshares on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding UNB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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