CZWI vs. CLDB, PBBI, MLVF, SFBC, HMNF, HTBI, NFBK, KRNY, NRIM, and FMAO
Should you be buying Citizens Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Community Bancorp include Cortland Bancorp (CLDB), PB Bancorp (PBBI), Malvern Bancorp (MLVF), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), HMN Financial (HMNF), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), and Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO).
Cortland Bancorp (NASDAQ:CLDB) and Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
16.9% of Cortland Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.1% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 12.3% of Cortland Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Citizens Community Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Cortland Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Citizens Community Bancorp and 0 mentions for Cortland Bancorp. Cortland Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Citizens Community Bancorp's score of -0.71 indicating that Citizens Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Citizens Community Bancorp received 187 more outperform votes than Cortland Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.51% of users gave Citizens Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Cortland Bancorp an outperform vote.
Cortland Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Citizens Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Citizens Community Bancorp pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens Community Bancorp has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Citizens Community Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Cortland Bancorp has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens Community Bancorp has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens Community Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Cortland Bancorp.
Cortland Bancorp has a net margin of 28.18% compared to Cortland Bancorp's net margin of 13.69%. Citizens Community Bancorp's return on equity of 12.02% beat Cortland Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Citizens Community Bancorp beats Cortland Bancorp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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