PEBK vs. CBFV, ICBK, EBMT, MFNC, SBFG, BFST, HKD, VEL, EQBK, and FSBC
Should you be buying Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina include CB Financial Services (CBFV), County Bancorp (ICBK), Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), Mackinac Financial (MFNC), SB Financial Group (SBFG), Business First Bancshares (BFST), AMTD Digital (HKD), Velocity Financial (VEL), Equity Bancshares (EQBK), and Five Star Bancorp (FSBC).
CB Financial Services (NASDAQ:CBFV) and Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (NASDAQ:PEBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.
CB Financial Services has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CB Financial Services presently has a consensus target price of $24.33, suggesting a potential downside of 2.67%. Given Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CB Financial Services is more favorable than Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina.
CB Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. CB Financial Services pays out 22.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina pays out 25.9% 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. Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. CB Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
33.1% of CB Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.8% of Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina shares are held by institutional investors. 9.4% of CB Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CB Financial Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina. CB Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina received 18 more outperform votes than CB Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.23% of users gave Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina an outperform vote while only 38.68% of users gave CB Financial Services an outperform vote.
CB Financial Services has a net margin of 24.64% compared to CB Financial Services' net margin of 15.80%. CB Financial Services' return on equity of 14.08% beat Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina's return on equity.
In the previous week, CB Financial Services had 10 more articles in the media than Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for CB Financial Services and 3 mentions for Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina. CB Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina's score of 0.45 indicating that Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina beats CB Financial Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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