CNF vs. SSBK, FRBA, SFST, LX, CIVB, LNKB, BCML, BLFY, TSBK, and PLBC
Should you be buying CNFinance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CNFinance include Southern States Bancshares (SSBK), First Bank (FRBA), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), LexinFintech (LX), Civista Bancshares (CIVB), LINKBANCORP (LNKB), BayCom (BCML), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), and Plumas Bancorp (PLBC). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Southern States Bancshares (NASDAQ:SSBK) and CNFinance (NYSE:CNF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Southern States Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $36.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.09%. Given CNFinance's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Southern States Bancshares is more favorable than CNFinance.
CNFinance received 69 more outperform votes than Southern States Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.55% of users gave CNFinance an outperform vote while only 48.15% of users gave Southern States Bancshares an outperform vote.
Southern States Bancshares has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CNFinance has a beta of 0.01, indicating that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Southern States Bancshares has a net margin of 20.68% compared to Southern States Bancshares' net margin of 9.40%. CNFinance's return on equity of 15.96% beat Southern States Bancshares' return on equity.
58.7% of Southern States Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 14.8% of Southern States Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of CNFinance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Southern States Bancshares had 13 more articles in the media than CNFinance. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Southern States Bancshares and 2 mentions for CNFinance. Southern States Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat CNFinance's score of 0.64 indicating that CNFinance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Southern States Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CNFinance. CNFinance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southern States Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Southern States Bancshares beats CNFinance on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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