BSRR vs. CZNC, WTBA, BMRC, EBTC, BWB, MOFG, RRBI, CCNE, PWOD, and CFFI
Should you be buying Sierra Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Bancorp include Citizens & Northern (CZNC), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC), Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB), MidWestOne Financial Group (MOFG), Red River Bancshares (RRBI), CNB Financial (CCNE), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), and C&F Financial (CFFI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Citizens & Northern (NASDAQ:CZNC) and Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Sierra Bancorp received 60 more outperform votes than Citizens & Northern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 52.82% of users gave Citizens & Northern an outperform vote while only 50.11% of users gave Sierra Bancorp an outperform vote.
Citizens & Northern currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.85%. Sierra Bancorp has a consensus target price of $22.33, indicating a potential upside of 7.11%. Given Sierra Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Citizens & Northern is more favorable than Sierra Bancorp.
Citizens & Northern pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Sierra Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Citizens & Northern pays out 71.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sierra Bancorp pays out 38.0% 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 net margin of 17.80% compared to Sierra Bancorp's net margin of 17.51%. Citizens & Northern's return on equity of 11.11% beat Sierra Bancorp's return on equity.
Citizens & Northern has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sierra Bancorp has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Citizens & Northern had 1 more articles in the media than Sierra Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Citizens & Northern and 2 mentions for Sierra Bancorp. Citizens & Northern's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Sierra Bancorp's score of 0.05 indicating that Sierra Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
30.8% of Citizens & Northern shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Citizens & Northern 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sierra Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Citizens & Northern. Sierra Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens & Northern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sierra Bancorp beats Citizens & Northern on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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