PSBD vs. PLBC, PRAA, ECPG, CCB, FPI, BFST, GMRE, EQBK, HBNC, and GCBC
Should you be buying Palmer Square Capital BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Palmer Square Capital BDC include Plumas Bancorp (PLBC), PRA Group (PRAA), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), Coastal Financial (CCB), Farmland Partners (FPI), Business First Bancshares (BFST), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), Equity Bancshares (EQBK), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), and Greene County Bancorp (GCBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Plumas Bancorp (NASDAQ:PLBC) and Palmer Square Capital BDC (NYSE:PSBD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Palmer Square Capital BDC has a net margin of 84.94% compared to Palmer Square Capital BDC's net margin of 33.12%. Palmer Square Capital BDC's return on equity of 20.39% beat Plumas Bancorp's return on equity.
Plumas Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Palmer Square Capital BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Plumas Bancorp pays out 22.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Plumas Bancorp has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Plumas Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.64%. Palmer Square Capital BDC has a consensus price target of $16.93, indicating a potential upside of 3.10%. Given Palmer Square Capital BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Plumas Bancorp is more favorable than Palmer Square Capital BDC.
Palmer Square Capital BDC has higher revenue and earnings than Plumas Bancorp.
Plumas Bancorp received 109 more outperform votes than Palmer Square Capital BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.78% of users gave Plumas Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Palmer Square Capital BDC an outperform vote.
41.7% of Plumas Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.5% of Palmer Square Capital BDC shares are held by institutional investors. 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, Palmer Square Capital BDC had 4 more articles in the media than Plumas Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Palmer Square Capital BDC and 6 mentions for Plumas Bancorp. Palmer Square Capital BDC's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Plumas Bancorp's score of 0.31 indicating that Plumas Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Plumas Bancorp and Palmer Square Capital BDC tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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