CZWI vs. PBBI, CLDB, MLVF, SFBC, HMNF, NFBK, KRNY, FMAO, NRIM, and SBT
Should you be buying Citizens Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Community Bancorp include PB Bancorp (PBBI), Cortland Bancorp (CLDB), Malvern Bancorp (MLVF), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), HMN Financial (HMNF), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), and Sterling Bancorp (SBT).
Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI) and PB Bancorp (NASDAQ:PBBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Citizens Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. PB Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Citizens Community Bancorp pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Citizens Community Bancorp has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PB Bancorp has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens Community Bancorp received 81 more outperform votes than PB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.51% of users gave Citizens Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 63.47% of users gave PB Bancorp an outperform vote.
55.1% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.8% of PB Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of PB Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Citizens Community Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than PB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Citizens Community Bancorp and 0 mentions for PB Bancorp. Citizens Community Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat PB Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Citizens Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PB Bancorp has a net margin of 16.91% compared to Citizens Community Bancorp's net margin of 13.69%. Citizens Community Bancorp's return on equity of 8.14% beat PB Bancorp's return on equity.
Citizens Community Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than PB Bancorp.
Summary
Citizens Community Bancorp beats PB Bancorp on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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