CVCY vs. LNKB, FRBA, HMST, BCML, JMSB, CIVB, BMRC, BSVN, PCB, and MVBF
Should you be buying Central Valley Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Valley Community Bancorp include LINKBANCORP (LNKB), First Bank (FRBA), HomeStreet (HMST), BayCom (BCML), John Marshall Bancorp (JMSB), Civista Bancshares (CIVB), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), Bank7 (BSVN), PCB Bancorp (PCB), and MVB Financial (MVBF). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Central Valley Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CVCY) and LINKBANCORP (NASDAQ:LNKB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Central Valley Community Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $20.33, suggesting a potential upside of ∞. LINKBANCORP has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.38%. Given Central Valley Community Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Central Valley Community Bancorp is more favorable than LINKBANCORP.
Central Valley Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share. LINKBANCORP pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Central Valley Community Bancorp pays out 22.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LINKBANCORP pays out -58.8% 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. LINKBANCORP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Central Valley Community Bancorp received 232 more outperform votes than LINKBANCORP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.18% of users gave Central Valley Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave LINKBANCORP an outperform vote.
Central Valley Community Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than LINKBANCORP. LINKBANCORP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Central Valley Community Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Central Valley Community Bancorp has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LINKBANCORP has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Central Valley Community Bancorp has a net margin of 23.39% compared to LINKBANCORP's net margin of -18.34%. Central Valley Community Bancorp's return on equity of 13.47% beat LINKBANCORP's return on equity.
50.2% of Central Valley Community Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.5% of LINKBANCORP shares are held by institutional investors. 15.9% of Central Valley Community Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.2% of LINKBANCORP shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Central Valley Community Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than LINKBANCORP. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Central Valley Community Bancorp and 0 mentions for LINKBANCORP. Central Valley Community Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat LINKBANCORP's score of 0.00 indicating that Central Valley Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Central Valley Community Bancorp beats LINKBANCORP on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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