PKBK vs. CHMG, SBBX, BCML, ISTR, TCFC, AMAL, CTBI, FMBH, CNOB, and PFC
Should you be buying Parke Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parke Bancorp include Chemung Financial (CHMG), SB One Bancorp (SBBX), BayCom (BCML), Investar (ISTR), Community Financial (TCFC), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), and Premier Financial (PFC).
Chemung Financial (NASDAQ:CHMG) and Parke Bancorp (NASDAQ:PKBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Chemung Financial has a beta of 0.2, meaning that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parke Bancorp has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chemung Financial received 2 more outperform votes than Parke Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.71% of users gave Parke Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.11% of users gave Chemung Financial an outperform vote.
47.5% of Chemung Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.7% of Parke Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 12.0% of Chemung 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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chemung Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Parke Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Chemung Financial pays out 23.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Parke Bancorp pays out 37.3% 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. Parke Bancorp has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Parke Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Parke Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chemung Financial. Chemung 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.
Parke Bancorp has a net margin of 19.22% compared to Parke Bancorp's net margin of 17.35%. Parke Bancorp's return on equity of 12.39% beat Chemung Financial's return on equity.
Chemung Financial presently has a consensus price target of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.90%. Given Parke Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Chemung Financial is more favorable than Parke Bancorp.
In the previous week, Chemung Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Parke Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Chemung Financial and 1 mentions for Parke Bancorp. Parke Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Chemung Financial's score of 0.94 indicating that Chemung Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Parke Bancorp beats Chemung Financial on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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