CMFN vs. CIZN, FSEA, ASPS, BYFC, TCBS, INTG, BOTJ, CFSB, BCOW, and CPBI
Should you be buying CM Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CM Finance include Citizens (CIZN), First Seacoast Bancorp (FSEA), Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Texas Community Bancshares (TCBS), The InterGroup (INTG), Bank of the James Financial Group (BOTJ), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), 1895 Bancorp of Wisconsin (BCOW), and Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Grand Island (CPBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CM Finance (NASDAQ:CMFN) and Citizens (NASDAQ:CIZN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Citizens had 3 more articles in the media than CM Finance. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Citizens and 0 mentions for CM Finance. Citizens' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat CM Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Citizens is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
44.5% of CM Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.7% of Citizens shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of CM Finance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Citizens shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CM Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 31.2%. Citizens pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. CM Finance pays out 71.9% 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. CM Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
CM Finance received 63 more outperform votes than Citizens when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave CM Finance an outperform vote while only 55.81% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote.
CM Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Citizens. CM Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Citizens has a net margin of 5.28% compared to CM Finance's net margin of -13.35%. CM Finance's return on equity of 11.75% beat Citizens' return on equity.
Summary
CM Finance beats Citizens on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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