PLBC vs. NICK, PSBD, OVLY, USCB, CHMG, SBNY, FVCB, BLFY, SAMG, and CZFS
Should you be buying Plumas Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Plumas Bancorp include Nicholas Financial (NICK), Palmer Square Capital BDC (PSBD), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), USCB Financial (USCB), Chemung Financial (CHMG), Signature Bank (SBNY), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), and Citizens Financial Services (CZFS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Nicholas Financial (NASDAQ:NICK) and Plumas Bancorp (NASDAQ:PLBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Plumas Bancorp has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.53%. Given Nicholas Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Plumas Bancorp is more favorable than Nicholas Financial.
39.9% of Nicholas Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Plumas Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 43.0% of Nicholas Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Plumas Bancorp shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Nicholas Financial had 17 more articles in the media than Plumas Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Nicholas Financial and 1 mentions for Plumas Bancorp. Plumas Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Nicholas Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Nicholas Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nicholas Financial received 21 more outperform votes than Plumas Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.13% of users gave Plumas Bancorp an outperform vote while only 60.36% of users gave Nicholas Financial an outperform vote.
Nicholas Financial has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Plumas Bancorp has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Plumas Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Nicholas Financial. Nicholas Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plumas Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Plumas Bancorp has a net margin of 33.12% compared to Plumas Bancorp's net margin of -134.48%. Nicholas Financial's return on equity of 21.53% beat Plumas Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Plumas Bancorp beats Nicholas Financial on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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