CWBC vs. OPBK, ISTR, PWOD, PEBK, CFFI, FINW, MYFW, MNSB, RMBI, and FCCO
Should you be buying Community West Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community West Bancshares include OP Bancorp (OPBK), Investar (ISTR), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), C&F Financial (CFFI), FinWise Bancorp (FINW), First Western Financial (MYFW), MainStreet Bancshares (MNSB), Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (RMBI), and First Community (FCCO). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Community West Bancshares (NASDAQ:CWBC) and OP Bancorp (NASDAQ:OPBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Community West Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than OP Bancorp. OP Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community West Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community West Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. OP Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Community West Bancshares pays out 25.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OP Bancorp pays out 34.3% 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.
Community West Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $20.33, indicating a potential upside of 17.53%. Given Community West Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Community West Bancshares is more favorable than OP Bancorp.
Community West Bancshares has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OP Bancorp has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Community West Bancshares received 80 more outperform votes than OP Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.26% of users gave Community West Bancshares an outperform vote while only 55.24% of users gave OP Bancorp an outperform vote.
33.8% of Community West Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of OP Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 21.1% of Community West Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.9% of OP Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Community West Bancshares has a net margin of 20.04% compared to OP Bancorp's net margin of 15.50%. OP Bancorp's return on equity of 11.56% beat Community West Bancshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, Community West Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than OP Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Community West Bancshares and 0 mentions for OP Bancorp. Community West Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat OP Bancorp's score of 0.44 indicating that Community West Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Community West Bancshares beats OP Bancorp on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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