CBAN vs. ICBK, MFNC, MBCN, PEBK, MRLN, SBSI, AMAL, CTBI, FMBH, and CNOB
Should you be buying Colony Bankcorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Colony Bankcorp include County Bancorp (ICBK), Mackinac Financial (MFNC), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), Marlin Business Services (MRLN), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), and ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
County Bancorp (NASDAQ:ICBK) and Colony Bankcorp (NASDAQ:CBAN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Colony Bankcorp has higher revenue and earnings than County Bancorp. Colony Bankcorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than County Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
County Bancorp has a net margin of 27.50% compared to County Bancorp's net margin of 13.17%. Colony Bankcorp's return on equity of 11.73% beat County Bancorp's return on equity.
County Bancorp received 181 more outperform votes than Colony Bankcorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.63% of users gave Colony Bankcorp an outperform vote while only 51.27% of users gave County Bancorp an outperform vote.
County Bancorp has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Colony Bankcorp has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
24.4% of County Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Colony Bankcorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.1% of County Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Colony Bankcorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Colony Bankcorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled County Bancorp'saverage media sentiment score.
County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Colony Bankcorp pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. County Bancorp pays out 13.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Colony Bankcorp pays out 36.0% 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. Colony Bankcorp has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Colony Bankcorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
County Bancorp beats Colony Bankcorp on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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