SONA vs. CZNC, INBK, CIVB, SMMF, CSTR, PEBO, GABC, QCRH, OBK, and AMAL
Should you be buying Southern National Bancorp of Virginia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern National Bancorp of Virginia include Citizens & Northern (CZNC), First Internet Bancorp (INBK), Civista Bancshares (CIVB), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), CapStar Financial (CSTR), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), German American Bancorp (GABC), QCR (QCRH), Origin Bancorp (OBK), and Amalgamated Financial (AMAL).
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia (NASDAQ:SONA) and Citizens & Northern (NASDAQ:CZNC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens & Northern has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Citizens & Northern. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens & Northern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Citizens & Northern had 5 more articles in the media than Southern National Bancorp of Virginia. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Citizens & Northern and 1 mentions for Southern National Bancorp of Virginia. Citizens & Northern's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Southern National Bancorp of Virginia's score of 0.00 indicating that Citizens & Northern is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Citizens & Northern pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Southern National Bancorp of Virginia pays out 27.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens & Northern pays out 73.7% 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.
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia received 14 more outperform votes than Citizens & Northern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 52.30% of users gave Citizens & Northern an outperform vote while only 42.82% of users gave Southern National Bancorp of Virginia an outperform vote.
77.2% of Southern National Bancorp of Virginia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.8% of Citizens & Northern shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Southern National Bancorp of Virginia shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Citizens & Northern shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia has a net margin of 17.12% compared to Citizens & Northern's net margin of 16.20%. Citizens & Northern's return on equity of 9.17% beat Southern National Bancorp of Virginia's return on equity.
Summary
Southern National Bancorp of Virginia beats Citizens & Northern on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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