SBFG vs. EBMT, AUBN, CFFI, PEBK, MBCN, SMMF, FFIC, MPB, RBB, and MOFG
Should you be buying SB Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SB Financial Group include Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), Auburn National Bancorporation (AUBN), C&F Financial (CFFI), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), RBB Bancorp (RBB), and MidWestOne Financial Group (MOFG). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
SB Financial Group (NASDAQ:SBFG) and Eagle Bancorp Montana (NASDAQ:EBMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Eagle Bancorp Montana has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.66%. Given Eagle Bancorp Montana's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Eagle Bancorp Montana is more favorable than SB Financial Group.
66.7% of SB Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of SB Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SB Financial Group has a net margin of 15.47% compared to Eagle Bancorp Montana's net margin of 7.39%. SB Financial Group's return on equity of 10.00% beat Eagle Bancorp Montana's return on equity.
SB Financial Group has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bancorp Montana has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SB Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Eagle Bancorp Montana pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. SB Financial Group pays out 32.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Bancorp Montana pays out 50.0% 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 higher earnings, but lower revenue than Eagle Bancorp Montana. SB Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Bancorp Montana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp Montana had 10 more articles in the media than SB Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Eagle Bancorp Montana and 2 mentions for SB Financial Group. SB Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Eagle Bancorp Montana's score of 0.60 indicating that SB Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eagle Bancorp Montana received 23 more outperform votes than SB Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 45.00% of users gave Eagle Bancorp Montana an outperform vote while only 41.37% of users gave SB Financial Group an outperform vote.
Summary
SB Financial Group beats Eagle Bancorp Montana on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SBFG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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