CBNK vs. SFST, LCNB, SHBI, ATLO, NKSH, SASR, OCFC, BFC, FBMS, and AMTB
Should you be buying Capital Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Bancorp include Southern First Bancshares (SFST), LCNB (LCNB), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), Ames National (ATLO), National Bankshares (NKSH), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Bank First (BFC), First Bancshares (FBMS), and Amerant Bancorp (AMTB). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Capital Bancorp (NASDAQ:CBNK) and Southern First Bancshares (NASDAQ:SFST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
56.1% of Capital Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.0% of Southern First Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.5% of Capital Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Southern First Bancshares shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Southern First Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than Capital Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Southern First Bancshares and 2 mentions for Capital Bancorp. Southern First Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Capital Bancorp's score of 0.91 indicating that Southern First Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Capital Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.03%. Southern First Bancshares has a consensus price target of $44.00, indicating a potential upside of 60.17%. Given Southern First Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Southern First Bancshares is more favorable than Capital Bancorp.
Southern First Bancshares received 95 more outperform votes than Capital Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.89% of users gave Capital Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.21% of users gave Southern First Bancshares an outperform vote.
Capital Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Southern First Bancshares. Capital Bancorp 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.
Capital Bancorp has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% 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.
Capital Bancorp has a net margin of 15.35% compared to Southern First Bancshares' net margin of 6.69%. Capital Bancorp's return on equity of 13.36% beat Southern First Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Capital Bancorp beats Southern First Bancshares on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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