OVBC vs. CZWI, FCCO, UNB, FNWB, UBFO, FGBI, SFBC, FSFG, EBMT, and CFBK
Should you be buying Ohio Valley Banc stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ohio Valley Banc include Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), First Community (FCCO), Union Bankshares (UNB), First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB), United Security Bancshares (UBFO), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), and CF Bankshares (CFBK).
Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI) and Ohio Valley Banc (NASDAQ:OVBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Citizens Community Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Ohio Valley Banc. Citizens Community Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ohio Valley Banc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.1% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ohio Valley Banc had 3 more articles in the media than Citizens Community Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ohio Valley Banc and 3 mentions for Citizens Community Bancorp. Ohio Valley Banc's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Citizens Community Bancorp's score of 0.32 indicating that Citizens Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Citizens Community Bancorp received 112 more outperform votes than Ohio Valley Banc when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.88% of users gave Citizens Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 33.18% of users gave Ohio Valley Banc an outperform vote.
Ohio Valley Banc has a net margin of 16.96% compared to Ohio Valley Banc's net margin of 13.82%. Citizens Community Bancorp's return on equity of 9.08% beat Ohio Valley Banc's return on equity.
Citizens Community Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.38%. Given Ohio Valley Banc's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Citizens Community Bancorp is more favorable than Ohio Valley Banc.
Citizens Community Bancorp has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ohio Valley Banc has a beta of 0.11, indicating that its stock price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Ohio Valley Banc pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Citizens Community Bancorp pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ohio Valley Banc pays out 33.2% 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 Community Bancorp has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Ohio Valley Banc has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Citizens Community Bancorp beats Ohio Valley Banc on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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