OFED vs. COFS, SFST, PCB, INBK, ONIT, JMSB, LNKB, BRBS, FRST, and OPRT
Should you be buying Oconee Federal Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oconee Federal Financial include ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), PCB Bancorp (PCB), First Internet Bancorp (INBK), Onity Group (ONIT), John Marshall Bancorp (JMSB), LINKBANCORP (LNKB), Blue Ridge Bankshares (BRBS), Primis Financial (FRST), and Oportun Financial (OPRT). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Oconee Federal Financial vs.
Oconee Federal Financial (NASDAQ:OFED) and ChoiceOne Financial Services (NASDAQ:COFS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
ChoiceOne Financial Services has a consensus price target of $39.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.22%. Given ChoiceOne Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ChoiceOne Financial Services is more favorable than Oconee Federal Financial.
Oconee Federal Financial has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ChoiceOne Financial Services has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ChoiceOne Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Oconee Federal Financial. ChoiceOne Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oconee Federal Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Oconee Federal Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. ChoiceOne Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Oconee Federal Financial pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ChoiceOne Financial Services pays out 34.4% 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. ChoiceOne Financial Services has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. ChoiceOne Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Oconee Federal Financial received 108 more outperform votes than ChoiceOne Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave ChoiceOne Financial Services an outperform vote while only 65.48% of users gave Oconee Federal Financial an outperform vote.
Oconee Federal Financial has a net margin of 22.17% compared to ChoiceOne Financial Services' net margin of 19.21%. ChoiceOne Financial Services' return on equity of 12.44% beat Oconee Federal Financial's return on equity.
19.9% of ChoiceOne Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Oconee Federal Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of ChoiceOne Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Oconee Federal Financial and Oconee Federal Financial both had 1 articles in the media. Oconee Federal Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ChoiceOne Financial Services'average media sentiment score.
Summary
ChoiceOne Financial Services beats Oconee Federal Financial on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:OFED) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
