PWOD vs. CFFI, BCML, CVCY, BMRC, CZNC, ORRF, BSRR, UNTY, WTBA, and EBTC
Should you be buying Penns Woods Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Penns Woods Bancorp include C&F Financial (CFFI), BayCom (BCML), Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY), Bank of Marin Bancorp (BMRC), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), Sierra Bancorp (BSRR), Unity Bancorp (UNTY), West Bancorporation (WTBA), and Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Penns Woods Bancorp (NASDAQ:PWOD) and C&F Financial (NASDAQ:CFFI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
27.9% of Penns Woods Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.2% of C&F Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Penns Woods Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of C&F Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Penns Woods Bancorp has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, C&F Financial has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.
C&F Financial received 107 more outperform votes than Penns Woods Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave C&F Financial an outperform vote while only 44.86% of users gave Penns Woods Bancorp an outperform vote.
Penns Woods Bancorp has a net margin of 14.79% compared to C&F Financial's net margin of 13.29%. C&F Financial's return on equity of 10.01% beat Penns Woods Bancorp's return on equity.
Penns Woods Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. C&F Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Penns Woods Bancorp pays out 58.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. C&F Financial pays out 29.0% 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.
In the previous week, Penns Woods Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than C&F Financial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Penns Woods Bancorp and 7 mentions for C&F Financial. C&F Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Penns Woods Bancorp's score of 0.39 indicating that C&F Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
C&F Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Penns Woods Bancorp. C&F Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Penns Woods Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
C&F Financial beats Penns Woods Bancorp on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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