CIZN vs. OVBC, UNB, CBFV, FRAF, MBCN, HMST, MYFW, PEBK, PWOD, and CFFI
Should you be buying Citizens stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens include Ohio Valley Banc (OVBC), Union Bankshares (UNB), CB Financial Services (CBFV), Franklin Financial Services (FRAF), Middlefield Banc (MBCN), HomeStreet (HMST), First Western Financial (MYFW), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD), and C&F Financial (CFFI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Ohio Valley Banc (NASDAQ:OVBC) and Citizens (NASDAQ:CIZN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Citizens received 22 more outperform votes than Ohio Valley Banc when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.93% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote while only 32.31% of users gave Ohio Valley Banc an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Citizens had 1 more articles in the media than Ohio Valley Banc. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Citizens and 2 mentions for Ohio Valley Banc. Ohio Valley Banc's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Citizens' score of -0.33 indicating that Citizens is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ohio Valley Banc has a beta of 0.09, indicating that its share price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens has a beta of -0.01, indicating that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500.
22.1% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.7% of Citizens shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Ohio Valley Banc shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Citizens shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ohio Valley Banc pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Citizens pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Ohio Valley Banc pays out 36.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ohio Valley Banc has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Ohio Valley Banc has a net margin of 14.70% compared to Ohio Valley Banc's net margin of 5.28%. Ohio Valley Banc's return on equity of 9.16% beat Citizens' return on equity.
Ohio Valley Banc has higher revenue and earnings than Citizens. Ohio Valley Banc is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ohio Valley Banc beats Citizens on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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