BSRR vs. CZNC, WTBA, BMRC, EBTC, BWB, MOFG, RRBI, CCNE, PWOD, and CFFI
Should you be buying Sierra Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Bancorp include Citizens & Northern (CZNC), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC), Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB), MidWestOne Financial Group (MOFG), Red River Bancshares (RRBI), CNB Financial (CCNE), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), and C&F Financial (CFFI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR) and Citizens & Northern (NASDAQ:CZNC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Sierra Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Citizens & Northern pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Sierra Bancorp pays out 38.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens & Northern pays out 71.3% 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.
Sierra Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $22.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.94%. Citizens & Northern has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.38%. Given Citizens & Northern's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Citizens & Northern is more favorable than Sierra Bancorp.
Sierra Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens & Northern has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sierra Bancorp had 16 more articles in the media than Citizens & Northern. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Sierra Bancorp and 6 mentions for Citizens & Northern. Citizens & Northern's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Sierra Bancorp's score of 0.37 indicating that Citizens & Northern is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sierra Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Citizens & Northern. Sierra Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens & Northern, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.4% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.8% of Citizens & Northern shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.9% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Citizens & Northern shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sierra Bancorp has a net margin of 17.80% compared to Citizens & Northern's net margin of 17.51%. Sierra Bancorp's return on equity of 11.11% beat Citizens & Northern's return on equity.
Sierra Bancorp received 60 more outperform votes than Citizens & Northern when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.00% of users gave Citizens & Northern an outperform vote while only 50.11% of users gave Sierra Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Sierra Bancorp beats Citizens & Northern on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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