SFST vs. FLIC, FNLC, BCAL, LCNB, CARE, NEWT, FISI, FDBC, PFIS, and CBNK
Should you be buying Southern First Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern First Bancshares include First of Long Island (FLIC), First Bancorp (FNLC), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), LCNB (LCNB), Carter Bankshares (CARE), NewtekOne (NEWT), Financial Institutions (FISI), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), and Capital Bancorp (CBNK). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
First of Long Island (NASDAQ:FLIC) and Southern First Bancshares (NASDAQ:SFST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
First of Long Island has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern First Bancshares has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
First of Long Island has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Southern First Bancshares. First of Long Island is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southern First Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
First of Long Island received 6 more outperform votes than Southern First Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.64% of users gave Southern First Bancshares an outperform vote while only 52.03% of users gave First of Long Island an outperform vote.
48.3% of First of Long Island shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of Southern First Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of First of Long Island shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Southern First Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern First Bancshares has a consensus price target of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 69.56%. Given First of Long Island's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Southern First Bancshares is more favorable than First of Long Island.
First of Long Island has a net margin of 14.14% compared to First of Long Island's net margin of 6.69%. Southern First Bancshares' return on equity of 6.59% beat First of Long Island's return on equity.
In the previous week, First of Long Island had 12 more articles in the media than Southern First Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for First of Long Island and 2 mentions for Southern First Bancshares. First of Long Island's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Southern First Bancshares' score of -0.02 indicating that Southern First Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Southern First Bancshares beats First of Long Island on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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