Plumas Bancorp (PLBC) Competitors

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

Do analysts prefer PLBC or AMAL?

Plumas Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $57.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.84%. Amalgamated Financial has a consensus target price of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.26%. Given Plumas Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Plumas Bancorp is more favorable than Amalgamated Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Plumas Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Amalgamated Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Is PLBC or AMAL a better dividend stock?

Plumas Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Amalgamated Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Plumas Bancorp pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amalgamated Financial pays out 16.2% 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PLBC or AMAL?

Plumas Bancorp received 24 more outperform votes than Amalgamated Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.59% of users gave Plumas Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.36% of users gave Amalgamated Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Plumas Bancorp	Outperform Votes 117 63.59%	Underperform Votes 67 36.41%
Amalgamated Financial	Outperform Votes 93 56.36%	Underperform Votes 72 43.64%

Is PLBC or AMAL more profitable?

Plumas Bancorp has a net margin of 30.74% compared to Amalgamated Financial's net margin of 24.50%. Plumas Bancorp's return on equity of 16.88% beat Amalgamated Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Plumas Bancorp	30.74%	16.88%	1.74%
Amalgamated Financial	24.50%	16.49%	1.30%

Does the media favor PLBC or AMAL?

In the previous week, Amalgamated Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Plumas Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Amalgamated Financial and 2 mentions for Plumas Bancorp. Plumas Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Amalgamated Financial's score of 0.20 indicating that Plumas Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, PLBC or AMAL?

Amalgamated Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Plumas Bancorp. Plumas Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amalgamated Financial, 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
Plumas Bancorp	$93.11M	2.80	$28.62M	$4.79	9.24
Amalgamated Financial	$434.51M	2.30	$106.43M	$3.45	9.44

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

41.7% of Plumas Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Plumas Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, PLBC or AMAL?

Plumas Bancorp has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amalgamated Financial has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Plumas Bancorp beats Amalgamated Financial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.