BOTJ vs. CIZN, BRBS, BAFN, FUSB, PBHC, AUBN, VBFC, BKSC, BMTX, and UBCP
Should you be buying Bank of the James Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of the James Financial Group include Citizens (CIZN), Blue Ridge Bankshares (BRBS), BayFirst Financial (BAFN), First US Bancshares (FUSB), Pathfinder Bancorp (PBHC), Auburn National Bancorporation (AUBN), Village Bank and Trust Financial (VBFC), Bank of South Carolina (BKSC), BM Technologies (BMTX), and United Bancorp (UBCP). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Bank of the James Financial Group (NASDAQ:BOTJ) and Citizens (NASDAQ:CIZN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Citizens had 4 more articles in the media than Bank of the James Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Citizens and 1 mentions for Bank of the James Financial Group. Bank of the James Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Citizens' score of 0.46 indicating that Bank of the James Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bank of the James Financial Group has a net margin of 16.59% compared to Citizens' net margin of 5.28%. Bank of the James Financial Group's return on equity of 16.11% beat Citizens' return on equity.
Bank of the James Financial Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Citizens. Bank of the James Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of the James Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Citizens pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Bank of the James Financial Group pays out 21.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
18.5% of Bank of the James Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.7% of Citizens shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.3% of Bank of the James Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Citizens shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens received 16 more outperform votes than Bank of the James Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave Bank of the James Financial Group an outperform vote while only 55.81% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote.
Summary
Bank of the James Financial Group beats Citizens on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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