FRST vs. CZNC, PFIS, OBT, BSRR, MVBF, WTBA, UNTY, BSVN, ORRF, and INBK
Should you be buying Primis Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Primis Financial include Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Orange County Bancorp (OBT), Sierra Bancorp (BSRR), MVB Financial (MVBF), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Unity Bancorp (UNTY), Bank7 (BSVN), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), and First Internet Bancorp (INBK).
Primis Financial (NASDAQ:FRST) and Citizens & Northern (NASDAQ:CZNC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
Citizens & Northern has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Primis Financial. Citizens & Northern is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primis Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Citizens & Northern has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.65%. Given Citizens & Northern's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Citizens & Northern is more favorable than Primis Financial.
75.0% of Primis Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.8% of Citizens & Northern shares are held by institutional investors. 10.6% of Primis Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Citizens & Northern shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Primis Financial and Primis Financial both had 2 articles in the media. Citizens & Northern's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Primis Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Citizens & Northern is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Primis Financial has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens & Northern has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens & Northern has a net margin of 17.51% compared to Primis Financial's net margin of 8.73%. Citizens & Northern's return on equity of 9.60% beat Primis Financial's return on equity.
Primis Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Citizens & Northern pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Primis Financial pays out 46.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens & Northern pays out 71.3% 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.
Citizens & Northern received 153 more outperform votes than Primis Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.00% of users gave Citizens & Northern an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave Primis Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Citizens & Northern beats Primis Financial on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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