CIWV vs. BFNC, BKGMF, BTHT, CROL, CBKM, CRSB, CHBH, CYVF, CYHC, and EMYB
Should you be buying Citizens Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Financial include Bank First National (BFNC), BayCom (BKGMF), Best Hometown Bancorp (BTHT), Carroll Bancorp (CROL), Consumers Bancorp (CBKM), Cornerstone Community Bancorp (CRSB), Croghan Bancshares (CHBH), Crystal Valley Financial (CYVF), CTRY BK HLDG CO/SH (CYHC), and Embassy Bancorp (EMYB). These companies are all part of the "banks - regional - us" industry.
Citizens Financial vs.
Citizens Financial (OTCMKTS:CIWV) and Bank First National (OTCMKTS:BFNC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Citizens Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Bank First National pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Citizens Financial pays out 47.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank First National pays out 32.3% 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.
5.6% of Citizens Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.8% of Bank First National shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.4% of Bank First National shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank First National, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bank First National had 26 more articles in the media than Citizens Financial. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Bank First National and 1 mentions for Citizens Financial. Bank First National's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Citizens Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Bank First National is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bank First National received 15 more outperform votes than Citizens Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.27% of users gave Bank First National an outperform vote while only 65.57% of users gave Citizens Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Bank First National beats Citizens Financial on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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