CWBC vs. RMBI, MNSB, FCCO, UNB, PWOD, FINW, SBNY, PEBK, LNKB, and FRAF
Should you be buying Community West Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community West Bancshares include Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (RMBI), MainStreet Bancshares (MNSB), First Community (FCCO), Union Bankshares (UNB), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), FinWise Bancorp (FINW), Signature Bank (SBNY), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), LINKBANCORP (LNKB), and Franklin Financial Services (FRAF). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (NASDAQ:RMBI) and Community West Bancshares (NASDAQ:CWBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Community West Bancshares received 125 more outperform votes than Richmond Mutual Bancorporation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.16% of users gave Community West Bancshares an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Richmond Mutual Bancorporation an outperform vote.
Community West Bancshares has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.90%. Given Richmond Mutual Bancorporation's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Community West Bancshares is more favorable than Richmond Mutual Bancorporation.
26.5% of Richmond Mutual Bancorporation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Community West Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of Richmond Mutual Bancorporation shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.1% of Community West Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Richmond Mutual Bancorporation has higher revenue and earnings than Community West Bancshares. Richmond Mutual Bancorporation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community West Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Richmond Mutual Bancorporation has a net margin of 13.17% compared to Richmond Mutual Bancorporation's net margin of 11.92%. Community West Bancshares' return on equity of 7.38% beat Richmond Mutual Bancorporation's return on equity.
Richmond Mutual Bancorporation pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Community West Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Richmond Mutual Bancorporation pays out 61.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community West Bancshares pays out 39.5% 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. Richmond Mutual Bancorporation has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Community West Bancshares has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Richmond Mutual Bancorporation had 2 more articles in the media than Community West Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Richmond Mutual Bancorporation and 2 mentions for Community West Bancshares. Richmond Mutual Bancorporation's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Community West Bancshares' score of 0.37 indicating that Community West Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Richmond Mutual Bancorporation has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community West Bancshares has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Community West Bancshares beats Richmond Mutual Bancorporation on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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