PWOD vs. CFFI, CVCY, BCML, BMRC, BSRR, ORRF, UNTY, CZNC, WTBA, and EBTC
Should you be buying Penns Woods Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Penns Woods Bancorp include C&F Financial (CFFI), Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY), BayCom (BCML), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), Sierra Bancorp (BSRR), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), Unity Bancorp (UNTY), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), West Bancorporation (WTBA), and Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC).
C&F Financial (NASDAQ:CFFI) and Penns Woods Bancorp (NASDAQ:PWOD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Penns Woods Bancorp has a net margin of 16.61% compared to Penns Woods Bancorp's net margin of 15.56%. Penns Woods Bancorp's return on equity of 11.51% beat C&F Financial's return on equity.
C&F Financial received 107 more outperform votes than Penns Woods Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave C&F Financial an outperform vote while only 44.86% of users gave Penns Woods Bancorp an outperform vote.
C&F Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Penns Woods Bancorp. C&F Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Penns Woods Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
C&F Financial has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Penns Woods Bancorp has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
C&F Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Penns Woods Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. C&F Financial pays out 25.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Penns Woods Bancorp pays out 55.4% 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. C&F Financial has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
In the previous week, C&F Financial and C&F Financial both had 3 articles in the media. C&F Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Penns Woods Bancorp's score of 0.29 indicating that Penns Woods Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
37.2% of C&F Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.9% of Penns Woods Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of C&F Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Penns Woods Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
C&F Financial beats Penns Woods Bancorp on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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