BCAL vs. FNLC, FDBC, CBNK, PFIS, NEWT, CARE, SFST, LCNB, GNTY, and ATLO
Should you be buying Southern California Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern California Bancorp include First Bancorp (FNLC), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), NewtekOne (NEWT), Carter Bankshares (CARE), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), LCNB (LCNB), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), and Ames National (ATLO). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Southern California Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCAL) and First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNLC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
First Bancorp received 189 more outperform votes than Southern California Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.30% of users gave First Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Southern California Bancorp an outperform vote.
55.4% of Southern California Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.4% of First Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.6% of Southern California Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of First Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Southern California Bancorp and Southern California Bancorp both had 2 articles in the media. Southern California Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat First Bancorp's score of 0.44 indicating that Southern California Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
First Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Southern California Bancorp. First Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southern California Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
First Bancorp has a net margin of 18.41% compared to Southern California Bancorp's net margin of 17.56%. First Bancorp's return on equity of 11.68% beat Southern California Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Southern California Bancorp and First Bancorp tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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