CFBK vs. LARK, FNCB, UBFO, OPOF, HWBK, FUNC, UBOH, VABK, OPHC, and ATLO
Should you be buying CF Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CF Bankshares include Landmark Bancorp (LARK), FNCB Bancorp (FNCB), United Security Bancshares (UBFO), Old Point Financial (OPOF), Hawthorn Bancshares (HWBK), First United (FUNC), United Bancshares (UBOH), Virginia National Bankshares (VABK), OptimumBank (OPHC), and Ames National (ATLO).
CF Bankshares (NASDAQ:CFBK) and Landmark Bancorp (NASDAQ:LARK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Landmark Bancorp received 20 more outperform votes than CF Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.15% of users gave Landmark Bancorp an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave CF Bankshares an outperform vote.
CF Bankshares has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Landmark Bancorp has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
41.1% of CF Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.7% of Landmark Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 18.6% of CF Bankshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Landmark Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CF Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Landmark Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. CF Bankshares pays out 9.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Landmark Bancorp pays out 37.8% 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.
CF Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Landmark Bancorp. CF Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Landmark Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Landmark Bancorp has a net margin of 15.70% compared to CF Bankshares' net margin of 15.08%. CF Bankshares' return on equity of 11.50% beat Landmark Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Landmark Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than CF Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Landmark Bancorp and 1 mentions for CF Bankshares. CF Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Landmark Bancorp's score of 0.69 indicating that CF Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CF Bankshares beats Landmark Bancorp on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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