FNCB vs. UBFO, LARK, HWBK, CFBK, PMBC, HAFC, CAC, AROW, SMBK, and ALRS
Should you be buying FNCB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FNCB Bancorp include United Security Bancshares (UBFO), Landmark Bancorp (LARK), Hawthorn Bancshares (HWBK), CF Bankshares (CFBK), Pacific Mercantile Bancorp (PMBC), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Camden National (CAC), Arrow Financial (AROW), SmartFinancial (SMBK), and Alerus Financial (ALRS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
United Security Bancshares (NASDAQ:UBFO) and FNCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
United Security Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FNCB Bancorp. United Security Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FNCB Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Security Bancshares has a net margin of 27.07% compared to United Security Bancshares' net margin of 14.92%. FNCB Bancorp's return on equity of 14.94% beat United Security Bancshares' return on equity.
United Security Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FNCB Bancorp has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Security Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. FNCB Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. United Security Bancshares pays out 46.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FNCB Bancorp pays out 51.4% 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. United Security Bancshares has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and FNCB Bancorp has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years. United Security Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
30.9% of United Security Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.3% of FNCB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.1% of United Security Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of FNCB Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, United Security Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than FNCB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for United Security Bancshares and 2 mentions for FNCB Bancorp. United Security Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat FNCB Bancorp's score of 1.50 indicating that FNCB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
United Security Bancshares received 88 more outperform votes than FNCB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 44.22% of users gave United Security Bancshares an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave FNCB Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
United Security Bancshares beats FNCB Bancorp on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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