CIVB vs. PCB, CZFS, FVCB, CHMG, BCML, NWFL, SBNY, SSBK, LNKB, and PKBK
Should you be buying Civista Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Civista Bancshares include PCB Bancorp (PCB), Citizens Financial Services (CZFS), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Chemung Financial (CHMG), BayCom (BCML), Norwood Financial (NWFL), Signature Bank (SBNY), Southern States Bancshares (SSBK), LINKBANCORP (LNKB), and Parke Bancorp (PKBK). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Civista Bancshares (NASDAQ:CIVB) and PCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:PCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
Civista Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. PCB Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Civista Bancshares pays out 27.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PCB Bancorp pays out 41.1% 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.
Civista Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than PCB Bancorp. Civista Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PCB Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Civista Bancshares has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PCB Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Civista Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $17.75, indicating a potential upside of 20.50%. PCB Bancorp has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.75%. Given Civista Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Civista Bancshares is more favorable than PCB Bancorp.
Civista Bancshares has a net margin of 16.38% compared to PCB Bancorp's net margin of 14.69%. Civista Bancshares' return on equity of 10.23% beat PCB Bancorp's return on equity.
52.1% of Civista Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of PCB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Civista Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.0% of PCB Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Civista Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than PCB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Civista Bancshares and 2 mentions for PCB Bancorp. Civista Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat PCB Bancorp's score of 0.39 indicating that Civista Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Civista Bancshares received 247 more outperform votes than PCB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.33% of users gave Civista Bancshares an outperform vote while only 48.00% of users gave PCB Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Civista Bancshares beats PCB Bancorp on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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