Financial Contrast: Pinnacle Bank (PBNK) & Its Competitors

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Pinnacle Bank and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pinnacle Bank	$53.91 million	$8.85 million	11.63
Pinnacle Bank Competitors	$897.03 million	$149.21 million	12.90

Pinnacle Bank’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Pinnacle Bank. Pinnacle Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Volatility and Risk

Pinnacle Bank has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle Bank’s competitors have a beta of 0.52, suggesting that their average stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

8.4% of Pinnacle Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.3% of shares of all “BANKS – SOUTHWEST” companies are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of shares of all “BANKS – SOUTHWEST” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Pinnacle Bank and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pinnacle Bank	14.83%	7.81%	0.88%
Pinnacle Bank Competitors	17.93%	10.60%	1.22%

Summary

Pinnacle Bank competitors beat Pinnacle Bank on 9 of the 9 factors compared.

Pinnacle Bank Company Profile

Pinnacle Bank, a commercial bank, provides various depository and credit services in Santa Clara, San Benito, and Monterey counties. The company offers checking, savings, money market, sweep, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit and certificates of deposit account registry services. It also provides home equity lines of credit and single family home construction loans; and loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, commercial real estate, and government assisted loans, as well as credit cards. In addition, the company offers automated teller machine cards/debit cards, debit card protection products, and safe deposit boxes; cash management products, such as online and mobile banking, online bill payment, mobile check deposit, automated clearing house (ACH) origination, remote deposit capture, night depository box, positive pay, ACH fraud filter, merchant card processing, wire transfer, and foreign currency services; and asset based lending covering accounts receivable financing, factoring, and purchase order financing services. It serves individual and business customers, as well as nonprofit organizations in Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Salinas, and Campbell. Pinnacle Bank was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Gilroy, California.