Pacific Premier Bancorp (NASDAQ:PPBI – Get Rating) and Oak Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:OVLY – Get Rating) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Pacific Premier Bancorp and Oak Valley Bancorp, as reported by MarketBeat.
Get Pacific Premier Bancorp alerts:| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Pacific Premier Bancorp | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Oak Valley Bancorp | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Pacific Premier Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $40.33, suggesting a potential upside of 17.69%. Given Pacific Premier Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pacific Premier Bancorp is more favorable than Oak Valley Bancorp.
Dividends
Pacific Premier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Oak Valley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Pacific Premier Bancorp pays out 40.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oak Valley Bancorp pays out 16.8% 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. Pacific Premier Bancorp has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Oak Valley Bancorp has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years.Volatility & Risk
Pacific Premier Bancorp has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oak Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Pacific Premier Bancorp and Oak Valley Bancorp's revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Pacific Premier Bancorp | $804.59 million | 4.05 | $339.89 million | $3.27 | 10.48 |
| Oak Valley Bancorp | $55.23 million | 2.71 | $16.34 million | $1.79 | 10.14 |
Pacific Premier Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Oak Valley Bancorp. Oak Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pacific Premier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Pacific Premier Bancorp and Oak Valley Bancorp's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Pacific Premier Bancorp | 38.46% | 11.07% | 1.45% |
| Oak Valley Bancorp | 26.56% | 10.61% | 0.76% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
91.9% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.3% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of Oak Valley Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Pacific Premier Bancorp beats Oak Valley Bancorp on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Pacific Premier Bancorp
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Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Pacific Premier Bank that provides banking services to businesses, professionals, real estate investors, and non-profit organizations. The company accepts deposit products, such as checking, money market, and savings accounts; and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio includes commercial real estate owner and non-owner-occupied, multifamily, construction and land, franchise real estate secured, small business administration (SBA), and SBA paycheck protection program loans; revolving lines or credit, term loans, seasonal loans, and loans secured by liquid collateral; one-to-four family and home equity lines of credit loans; and savings account secured loans and auto loans. The company also offers cash management, electronic banking, treasury management, and online bill payment services. It operates 61 full-service depository branches located in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
About Oak Valley Bancorp
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Oak Valley Bancorp operates as the bank holding company for Oak Valley Community Bank that provides a range of commercial banking services to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in the Central Valley and the Eastern Sierras. The company's deposits products include checking and savings, money market, health savings, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also offers commercial real estate loans, commercial business lending and trade finance, and small business administration lending, as well as consumer loans consisting of automobile loans, home mortgage loans, revolving lines of credit, and other personal loans. In addition, the company provides online banking, remote deposit capture, mobile banking, merchant, night depository, extended hours, wire transfer of funds, and note collection services, as well as automated teller machines. As of December 31, 2021, it operated through seventeen full-service branch offices in Oakdale, Sonora, Bridgeport, Bishop, Mammoth Lakes, Modesto, Manteca, Patterson, Turlock, Tracy, Ripon, Stockton, Escalon, California, and Sacramento. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Oakdale, California.
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