BRBS vs. ACNB, CZNC, FRST, INBK, BMRC, JMSB, MVBF, FRBA, LNKB, and USCB
Should you be buying Blue Ridge Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Ridge Bankshares include ACNB (ACNB), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Primis Financial (FRST), First Internet Bancorp (INBK), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), John Marshall Bancorp (JMSB), MVB Financial (MVBF), First Bank (FRBA), LINKBANCORP (LNKB), and USCB Financial (USCB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
ACNB (NASDAQ:ACNB) and Blue Ridge Bankshares (NASDAQ:BRBS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
ACNB has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Blue Ridge Bankshares. Blue Ridge Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ACNB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACNB presently has a consensus price target of $42.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.04%. Given Blue Ridge Bankshares' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ACNB is more favorable than Blue Ridge Bankshares.
ACNB has a net margin of 24.98% compared to ACNB's net margin of -35.41%. Blue Ridge Bankshares' return on equity of 11.00% beat ACNB's return on equity.
ACNB received 154 more outperform votes than Blue Ridge Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.90% of users gave ACNB an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Blue Ridge Bankshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ACNB had 5 more articles in the media than Blue Ridge Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for ACNB and 0 mentions for Blue Ridge Bankshares. Blue Ridge Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat ACNB's score of 0.00 indicating that ACNB is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ACNB has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Ridge Bankshares has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
32.4% of ACNB shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.5% of Blue Ridge Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of ACNB shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Blue Ridge Bankshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ACNB beats Blue Ridge Bankshares on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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