PWOD vs. ISTR, SBBX, BCML, CVCY, UNTY, EGBN, CPF, HBNC, HTBK, and HTBI
Should you be buying Penns Woods Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Penns Woods Bancorp include Investar (ISTR), SB One Bancorp (SBBX), BayCom (BCML), Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY), Unity Bancorp (UNTY), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), and HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Penns Woods Bancorp (NASDAQ:PWOD) and Investar (NASDAQ:ISTR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
27.9% of Penns Woods Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of Investar shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Penns Woods Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Investar shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Investar has a consensus price target of $16.08, suggesting a potential upside of 1.41%. Given Investar's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Investar is more favorable than Penns Woods Bancorp.
Investar received 132 more outperform votes than Penns Woods Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.22% of users gave Investar an outperform vote while only 44.86% of users gave Penns Woods Bancorp an outperform vote.
Penns Woods Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Investar pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Penns Woods Bancorp pays out 58.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Investar pays out 22.3% 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.
Investar has higher revenue and earnings than Penns Woods Bancorp. Investar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Penns Woods Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Penns Woods Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Investar. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Penns Woods Bancorp and 4 mentions for Investar. Investar's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Penns Woods Bancorp's score of 0.80 indicating that Investar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Penns Woods Bancorp has a net margin of 14.79% compared to Investar's net margin of 12.02%. Penns Woods Bancorp's return on equity of 8.61% beat Investar's return on equity.
Penns Woods Bancorp has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Investar has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Investar beats Penns Woods Bancorp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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