First Citizens BancShares (FCNCP) Competitors

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

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, FCNCP or OZKAP?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
First Citizens BancShares	$9.91B	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bank OZK	$1.56B	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is FCNCP 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

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FCNCP 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

Does the media refer more to FCNCP or OZKAP?

In the previous week, First Citizens BancShares had 7 more articles in the media than Bank OZK. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for First Citizens BancShares and 2 mentions for Bank OZK. First Citizens BancShares' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Bank OZK's score of 0.50 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	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Bank OZK	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is FCNCP or OZKAP a better dividend stock?

First Citizens BancShares pays an annual dividend of $1.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Bank OZK pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%.

Do analysts prefer FCNCP 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

Summary

First Citizens BancShares beats Bank OZK on 3 of the 4 factors compared between the two stocks.