BCAL vs. FNLC, PFIS, FDBC, FISI, FLIC, CBNK, SFST, CARE, LCNB, and NEWT
Should you be buying Southern California Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern California Bancorp include First Bancorp (FNLC), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Financial Institutions (FISI), First of Long Island (FLIC), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Carter Bankshares (CARE), LCNB (LCNB), and NewtekOne (NEWT). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Southern California Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCAL) and First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNLC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
First Bancorp has a net margin of 18.41% compared to Southern California Bancorp's net margin of 17.56%. First Bancorp's return on equity of 11.68% beat Southern California Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Southern California Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than First Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Southern California Bancorp and 1 mentions for First Bancorp. First Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Southern California Bancorp's score of 0.65 indicating that First Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.4% of Southern California Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.4% of First Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 19.6% of Southern California Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of First Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
First Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Southern California Bancorp. First Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southern California Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
First Bancorp received 189 more outperform votes than Southern California Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.30% of users gave First Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Southern California Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
First Bancorp beats Southern California Bancorp on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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