BCAL vs. PFIS, FDBC, CBNK, FISI, NEWT, FNLC, FLIC, SFST, GNTY, and SMBK
Should you be buying Southern California Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern California Bancorp include Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Financial Institutions (FISI), NewtekOne (NEWT), First Bancorp (FNLC), First of Long Island (FLIC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), and SmartFinancial (SMBK). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Southern California Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCAL) and Peoples Financial Services (NASDAQ:PFIS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Peoples Financial Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Southern California Bancorp. Southern California Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peoples Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.4% of Southern California Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.7% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.9% of Southern California Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Peoples Financial Services shares are owned 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.
Southern California Bancorp has a net margin of 20.42% compared to Peoples Financial Services' net margin of 13.81%. Southern California Bancorp's return on equity of 9.35% beat Peoples Financial Services' return on equity.
Peoples Financial Services received 106 more outperform votes than Southern California Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.32% of users gave Peoples Financial Services an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Southern California Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Peoples Financial Services had 1 more articles in the media than Southern California Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Peoples Financial Services and 6 mentions for Southern California Bancorp. Southern California Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Peoples Financial Services' score of 0.08 indicating that Southern California Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Southern California Bancorp beats Peoples Financial Services on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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