FCCO vs. CWBC, RMBI, MNSB, FINW, UNB, PWOD, SBNY, LNKB, FRAF, and OVBC
Should you be buying First Community stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Community include Community West Bancshares (CWBC), Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (RMBI), MainStreet Bancshares (MNSB), FinWise Bancorp (FINW), Union Bankshares (UNB), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), Signature Bank (SBNY), LINKBANCORP (LNKB), Franklin Financial Services (FRAF), and Ohio Valley Banc (OVBC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
First Community (NASDAQ:FCCO) 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 dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Community West Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than First Community. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Community West Bancshares and 1 mentions for First Community. First Community's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Community West Bancshares' score of 1.43 indicating that First Community is being referred to more favorably in the media.
61.3% of First Community shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of Community West Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of First Community 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
First Community has a net margin of 14.25% compared to Community West Bancshares' net margin of 11.92%. First Community's return on equity of 9.43% beat Community West Bancshares' return on equity.
First Community currently has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.48%. Community West Bancshares has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.10%. Given First Community's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe First Community is more favorable than Community West Bancshares.
First Community received 36 more outperform votes than Community West Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.16% of users gave Community West Bancshares an outperform vote while only 44.94% of users gave First Community an outperform vote.
First Community pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Community West Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. First Community pays out 36.4% 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. First Community is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
First Community has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community West Bancshares has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
First Community has higher revenue and earnings than Community West Bancshares. First Community 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.
Summary
First Community beats Community West Bancshares on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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