SBFG vs. SMBK, HONE, HKD, SHBI, MSBI, PFIS, ALRS, FFWM, MPB, and GCBC
Should you be buying SB Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SB Financial Group include SmartFinancial (SMBK), HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), AMTD Digital (HKD), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Alerus Financial (ALRS), First Foundation (FFWM), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), and Greene County Bancorp (GCBC). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
SB Financial Group vs.
SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and SB Financial Group (NASDAQ:SBFG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
SmartFinancial has higher revenue and earnings than SB Financial Group. SB Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SmartFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartFinancial currently has a consensus price target of $29.50, indicating a potential downside of 8.73%. Given SmartFinancial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe SmartFinancial is more favorable than SB Financial Group.
SmartFinancial received 53 more outperform votes than SB Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.18% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 39.60% of users gave SB Financial Group an outperform vote.
SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SB Financial Group has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. SB Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. SmartFinancial pays out 16.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SB Financial Group pays out 33.3% 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. SB Financial Group has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. SB Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, SB Financial Group had 4 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for SB Financial Group and 4 mentions for SmartFinancial. SmartFinancial's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat SB Financial Group's score of 0.29 indicating that SmartFinancial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SB Financial Group has a net margin of 14.53% compared to SmartFinancial's net margin of 11.88%. SB Financial Group's return on equity of 9.42% beat SmartFinancial's return on equity.
58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.7% of SB Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of SmartFinancial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of SB Financial Group shares are held 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.
Summary
SmartFinancial beats SB Financial Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SBFG) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
