First Citizens BancShares (FCNCO) Competitors

First Citizens BancShares (NASDAQ:FCNCO) and Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZKAP) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.

Is FCNCO or OZKAP a better dividend stock?

First Citizens BancShares pays an annual dividend of $1.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Bank OZK pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%.

Is FCNCO or OZKAP more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
First Citizens BancShares	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bank OZK	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has higher earnings & valuation, FCNCO or OZKAP?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
First Citizens BancShares	$8.78B	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bank OZK	$1.56B	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FCNCO or OZKAP?

First Citizens BancShares and Bank OZK both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
First Citizens BancShares	N/A	N/A
Bank OZK	N/A	N/A

Do analysts prefer FCNCO or OZKAP?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
First Citizens BancShares	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Bank OZK	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the media favor FCNCO or OZKAP?

In the previous week, Bank OZK had 1 more articles in the media than First Citizens BancShares. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Bank OZK and 1 mentions for First Citizens BancShares. First Citizens BancShares' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Bank OZK's score of 0.28 indicating that First Citizens BancShares is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
First Citizens BancShares	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Bank OZK	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

First Citizens BancShares and Bank OZK tied by winning 2 of the 4 factors compared between the two stocks.