BSRR vs. BMRC, WTBA, CZNC, MOFG, PWOD, CFFI, EBTC, CCNE, THFF, and CPF
Should you be buying Sierra Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Bancorp include Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), MidWestOne Financial Group (MOFG), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), C&F Financial (CFFI), Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC), CNB Financial (CCNE), First Financial (THFF), and Central Pacific Financial (CPF). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Sierra Bancorp vs.
Bank of Marin Bancorp (NASDAQ:BMRC) and Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
48.9% of Bank of Marin Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.4% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Bank of Marin Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bank of Marin Bancorp has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sierra Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank of Marin Bancorp received 54 more outperform votes than Sierra Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.00% of users gave Bank of Marin Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.70% of users gave Sierra Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bank of Marin Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Sierra Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Bank of Marin Bancorp and 1 mentions for Sierra Bancorp. Sierra Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Bank of Marin Bancorp's score of 0.74 indicating that Sierra Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bank of Marin Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Sierra Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Bank of Marin Bancorp pays out 35.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sierra Bancorp pays out 39.7% 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. Bank of Marin Bancorp has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Sierra Bancorp has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Bank of Marin Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $34.25, suggesting a potential upside of 76.73%. Sierra Bancorp has a consensus price target of $22.25, suggesting a potential upside of 29.21%. Given Bank of Marin Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Bank of Marin Bancorp is more favorable than Sierra Bancorp.
Bank of Marin Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sierra Bancorp. Bank of Marin Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sierra Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of Marin Bancorp has a net margin of 31.45% compared to Sierra Bancorp's net margin of 21.29%. Sierra Bancorp's return on equity of 11.62% beat Bank of Marin Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Bank of Marin Bancorp beats Sierra Bancorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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