CZNC vs. SONA, WTBA, EBTC, RBB, CSTR, PEBO, SASR, GABC, LBAI, and SBSI
Should you be buying Citizens & Northern stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens & Northern include Southern National Bancorp of Virginia (SONA), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC), RBB Bancorp (RBB), CapStar Financial (CSTR), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), German American Bancorp (GABC), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), and Southside Bancshares (SBSI).
Citizens & Northern (NASDAQ:CZNC) and Southern National Bancorp of Virginia (NASDAQ:SONA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia has a net margin of 17.12% compared to Citizens & Northern's net margin of 16.20%. Citizens & Northern's return on equity of 9.17% beat Southern National Bancorp of Virginia's return on equity.
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia received 14 more outperform votes than Citizens & Northern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 52.30% of users gave Citizens & Northern an outperform vote while only 43.47% of users gave Southern National Bancorp of Virginia an outperform vote.
30.8% of Citizens & Northern shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Southern National Bancorp of Virginia shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Citizens & Northern shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Southern National Bancorp of Virginia shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia has higher revenue and earnings than Citizens & Northern. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens & Northern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Citizens & Northern had 1 more articles in the media than Southern National Bancorp of Virginia. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Citizens & Northern and 0 mentions for Southern National Bancorp of Virginia. Citizens & Northern's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Southern National Bancorp of Virginia's score of 0.00 indicating that Citizens & Northern is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Citizens & Northern currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.67%. Given Citizens & Northern's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Citizens & Northern is more favorable than Southern National Bancorp of Virginia.
Citizens & Northern pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Citizens & Northern pays out 73.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia pays out 27.0% 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.
Citizens & Northern has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern National Bancorp of Virginia has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Citizens & Northern and Southern National Bancorp of Virginia tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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