FMAO vs. LOB, WULF, QCRH, LC, HUT, SUPV, BY, BTDR, CIFR, and CMPO
Should you be buying Farmers & Merchants Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp include Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), TeraWulf (WULF), QCR (QCRH), LendingClub (LC), Hut 8 (HUT), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), Byline Bancorp (BY), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), Cipher Mining (CIFR), and CompoSecure (CMPO). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp vs.
Live Oak Bancshares (NASDAQ:LOB) and Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:FMAO) 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, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Live Oak Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $44.75, indicating a potential upside of 61.79%. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.64%. Given Live Oak Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Live Oak Bancshares is more favorable than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp.
Live Oak Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Oak Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Live Oak Bancshares received 72 more outperform votes than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.61% of users gave Farmers & Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.97% of users gave Live Oak Bancshares an outperform vote.
64.0% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.0% of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.9% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Live Oak Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Live Oak Bancshares pays out 8.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp pays out 46.3% 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. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp has raised its dividend for 19 consecutive years. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp has a net margin of 14.48% compared to Live Oak Bancshares' net margin of 7.10%. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's return on equity of 7.97% beat Live Oak Bancshares' return on equity.
Live Oak Bancshares has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Farmers & Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Live Oak Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Live Oak Bancshares and 5 mentions for Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Live Oak Bancshares' score of 0.45 indicating that Farmers & Merchants Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Live Oak Bancshares beats Farmers & Merchants Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:FMAO) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
