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Citizens Financial Services (CZFS) Competitors

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$54.86 +1.68 (+3.16%)
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CZFS vs. OBNK, LDI, OSBC, OPFI, BHRB, FMBH, ATLC, ESQ, LX, and SBSI

Should you be buying Citizens Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Financial Services include Origin Bancorp (OBNK), loanDepot (LDI), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), OppFi (OPFI), Burke & Herbert Financial Services (BHRB), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Atlanticus (ATLC), Esquire Financial (ESQ), LexinFintech (LX), and Southside Bancshares (SBSI). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Citizens Financial Services vs. Its Competitors

Citizens Financial Services (NASDAQ:CZFS) and Origin Bancorp (NASDAQ:OBNK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and profitability.

In the previous week, Citizens Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Origin Bancorp's score of 0.76 indicating that Citizens Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Citizens Financial Services Positive
Origin Bancorp Positive

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Citizens Financial Services
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Origin Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Origin Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Citizens Financial Services. Citizens Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Origin Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Citizens Financial Services$169.72M1.55$27.82M$6.638.27
Origin Bancorp$347.14M2.91$87.71M$3.2110.23

Citizens Financial Services has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Origin Bancorp has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

22.5% of Citizens Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Origin Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Citizens Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Origin Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Citizens Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Origin Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Citizens Financial Services pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Origin Bancorp pays out 18.7% 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. Origin Bancorp has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Origin Bancorp has a net margin of 20.47% compared to Citizens Financial Services' net margin of 18.54%. Origin Bancorp's return on equity of 10.45% beat Citizens Financial Services' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Citizens Financial Services18.54% 10.36% 1.05%
Origin Bancorp 20.47%10.45%0.97%

Summary

Origin Bancorp beats Citizens Financial Services on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CZFS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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CZFS vs. The Competition

MetricCitizens Financial ServicesBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$263.73M$860.69M$12.51B$10.56B
Dividend Yield3.65%3.21%5.61%4.83%
P/E Ratio8.2716.4028.5727.05
Price / Sales1.552.0129.98132.35
Price / Cash9.1522.0519.3430.35
Price / Book0.871.082.246.58
Net Income$27.82M$54.82M$1.02B$276.84M
7 Day Performance1.11%-0.74%0.22%1.93%
1 Month Performance-13.29%-5.63%-2.24%2.19%
1 Year Performance-10.74%4.74%537.64%34.62%

Citizens Financial Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CZFS
Citizens Financial Services
3.7911 of 5 stars
$54.86
+3.2%
N/A-10.7%$263.73M$169.72M8.27310
OBNK
Origin Bancorp
1.65 of 5 stars
$32.98
-4.3%
N/A-3.2%$1.02B$347.14M10.271,010News Coverage
LDI
loanDepot
0.9443 of 5 stars
$2.83
-3.6%
$2.85
+0.9%
+36.4%$934.88M$1.06B-8.564,900Insider Trade
Gap Down
OSBC
Old Second Bancorp
3.7245 of 5 stars
$17.43
+1.1%
$21.38
+22.7%
-0.4%$917.69M$341.72M9.52890News Coverage
Short Interest ↑
OPFI
OppFi
3.0976 of 5 stars
$10.27
+3.0%
$13.63
+32.6%
+79.0%$896.98M$555.03M-7.84570
BHRB
Burke & Herbert Financial Services
2.7881 of 5 stars
$59.24
-0.1%
$71.50
+20.7%
-7.8%$889.79M$402.33M8.60850News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
FMBH
First Mid Bancshares
3.2913 of 5 stars
$36.21
+0.7%
$43.33
+19.7%
-10.3%$868.92M$453.67M10.291,198
ATLC
Atlanticus
3.9218 of 5 stars
$57.30
+1.8%
$76.60
+33.7%
+43.7%$866.36M$1.31B10.07330
ESQ
Esquire Financial
1.7132 of 5 stars
$100.53
+0.1%
$100.50
0.0%
+50.3%$858.48M$138.27M18.55110News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
LX
LexinFintech
3.8234 of 5 stars
$5.03
-0.5%
$13.60
+170.6%
+69.8%$842.14M$1.95B3.944,667
SBSI
Southside Bancshares
1.7141 of 5 stars
$27.55
+0.4%
N/AN/A$828.70M$456.07M9.77810

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This page (NASDAQ:CZFS) was last updated on 10/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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