SONA vs. BSRR, OBT, MVBF, FRST, CZNC, BSVN, WTBA, UNTY, ORRF, and INBK
Should you be buying Southern National Bancorp of Virginia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern National Bancorp of Virginia include Sierra Bancorp (BSRR), Orange County Bancorp (OBT), MVB Financial (MVBF), Primis Financial (FRST), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Bank7 (BSVN), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Unity Bancorp (UNTY), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), and First Internet Bancorp (INBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR) and Southern National Bancorp of Virginia (NASDAQ:SONA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Sierra Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Southern National Bancorp of Virginia. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sierra Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.4% of Sierra Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Southern National Bancorp of Virginia shares are held by institutional investors. 11.6% of Sierra Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Southern National Bancorp of Virginia shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Sierra Bancorp had 17 more articles in the media than Southern National Bancorp of Virginia. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Sierra Bancorp and 2 mentions for Southern National Bancorp of Virginia. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Sierra Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Sierra Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sierra Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $22.33, suggesting a potential upside of 7.99%. Given Southern National Bancorp of Virginia's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sierra Bancorp is more favorable than Southern National Bancorp of Virginia.
Sierra Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Sierra Bancorp pays out 38.0% 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.
Sierra Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern National Bancorp of Virginia has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sierra Bancorp received 46 more outperform votes than Southern National Bancorp of Virginia when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.11% of users gave Sierra Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.13% of users gave Southern National Bancorp of Virginia an outperform vote.
Sierra Bancorp has a net margin of 17.80% compared to Sierra Bancorp's net margin of 17.12%. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia's return on equity of 11.11% beat Sierra Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Sierra Bancorp beats Southern National Bancorp of Virginia on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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