FMAO vs. NRIM, NFBK, PDLB, WSBF, HTBI, CUBI, NIC, QCRH, BY, and CMPO
Should you be buying Farmers & Merchants Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp include Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), QCR (QCRH), Byline Bancorp (BY), and CompoSecure (CMPO).
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp vs.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:FMAO) and Northrim BanCorp (NASDAQ:NRIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and community ranking.
Northrim BanCorp received 10 more outperform votes than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.17% of users gave Northrim BanCorp an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Farmers & Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Northrim BanCorp pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp pays out 51.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northrim BanCorp pays out 42.3% 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 increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Northrim BanCorp has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Northrim BanCorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential downside of 24.79%. Given Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Farmers & Merchants Bancorp is more favorable than Northrim BanCorp.
24.0% of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of Northrim BanCorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Northrim BanCorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northrim BanCorp has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northrim BanCorp has a net margin of 17.79% compared to Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's net margin of 13.16%. Northrim BanCorp's return on equity of 13.31% beat Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's return on equity.
Northrim BanCorp has higher revenue and earnings than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. Northrim BanCorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Northrim BanCorp had 5 more articles in the media than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Northrim BanCorp and 0 mentions for Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. Northrim BanCorp's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Northrim BanCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Northrim BanCorp beats Farmers & Merchants Bancorp on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:FMAO) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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