BSRR vs. RRBI, BWB, WTBA, CCNE, SPFI, HOPE, TCBK, SRCE, PFBC, and SASR
Should you be buying Sierra Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Bancorp include Red River Bancshares (RRBI), Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB), West Bancorporation (WTBA), CNB Financial (CCNE), South Plains Financial (SPFI), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), 1st Source (SRCE), Preferred Bank (PFBC), and Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Red River Bancshares (NASDAQ:RRBI) and Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
27.6% of Red River Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of Red River Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Red River Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than Sierra Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Red River Bancshares and 2 mentions for Sierra Bancorp. Red River Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Sierra Bancorp's score of 0.95 indicating that Sierra Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sierra Bancorp received 177 more outperform votes than Red River Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.00% of users gave Sierra Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.21% of users gave Red River Bancshares an outperform vote.
Red River Bancshares has a net margin of 22.87% compared to Red River Bancshares' net margin of 17.80%. Sierra Bancorp's return on equity of 11.46% beat Red River Bancshares' return on equity.
Red River Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Sierra Bancorp. Sierra Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Red River Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Red River Bancshares has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sierra Bancorp has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Red River Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Sierra Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Red River Bancshares pays out 7.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sierra Bancorp pays out 38.0% 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. Red River Bancshares has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Red River Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.93%. Sierra Bancorp has a consensus price target of $22.33, indicating a potential upside of 6.25%. Given Sierra Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Red River Bancshares is more favorable than Sierra Bancorp.
Summary
Red River Bancshares beats Sierra Bancorp on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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