Parke Bancorp (PKBK) Competitors

Amalgamated Financial (NASDAQ:AMAL) and Parke Bancorp (NASDAQ:PKBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.

Is AMAL or PKBK a better dividend stock?

Amalgamated Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Parke Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Amalgamated Financial pays out 16.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Parke Bancorp pays out 31.7% 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.

Which has more risk and volatility, AMAL or PKBK?

Amalgamated Financial has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parke Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend AMAL or PKBK?

Amalgamated Financial currently has a consensus price target of $38.50, suggesting a potential upside of 45.78%. Given Amalgamated Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Amalgamated Financial is more favorable than Parke Bancorp.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Amalgamated Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Parke Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has better earnings and valuation, AMAL or PKBK?

Amalgamated Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Parke Bancorp. Amalgamated Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parke Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Amalgamated Financial	$316.48M	2.56	$106.43M	$3.45	7.66
Parke Bancorp	$63.01M	3.38	$27.51M	$2.27	7.91

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in AMAL or PKBK?

75.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.7% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AMAL or PKBK?

Parke Bancorp received 45 more outperform votes than Amalgamated Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.53% of users gave Parke Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.36% of users gave Amalgamated Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Amalgamated Financial	Outperform Votes 93 56.36%	Underperform Votes 72 43.64%
Parke Bancorp	Outperform Votes 138 60.53%	Underperform Votes 90 39.47%

Is AMAL or PKBK more profitable?

Amalgamated Financial has a net margin of 24.50% compared to Parke Bancorp's net margin of 21.25%. Amalgamated Financial's return on equity of 16.49% beat Parke Bancorp's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Amalgamated Financial	24.50%	16.49%	1.30%
Parke Bancorp	21.25%	9.41%	1.35%

Does the media refer more to AMAL or PKBK?

In the previous week, Amalgamated Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Parke Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Amalgamated Financial and 2 mentions for Parke Bancorp. Amalgamated Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Parke Bancorp's score of -0.04 indicating that Amalgamated Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Amalgamated Financial	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Parke Bancorp	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Amalgamated Financial beats Parke Bancorp on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.