CFBK vs. LARK, FNCB, OPOF, UBFO, UBOH, ALRS, SHBI, GNTY, NEWT, and CARE
Should you be buying CF Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CF Bankshares include Landmark Bancorp (LARK), FNCB Bancorp (FNCB), Old Point Financial (OPOF), United Security Bancshares (UBFO), United Bancshares (UBOH), Alerus Financial (ALRS), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), NewtekOne (NEWT), and Carter Bankshares (CARE). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Landmark Bancorp (NASDAQ:LARK) and CF Bankshares (NASDAQ:CFBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Landmark Bancorp received 20 more outperform votes than CF Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.94% of users gave Landmark Bancorp an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave CF Bankshares an outperform vote.
Landmark Bancorp has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CF Bankshares has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Landmark Bancorp has a net margin of 14.39% compared to Landmark Bancorp's net margin of 13.25%. Landmark Bancorp's return on equity of 10.17% beat CF Bankshares' return on equity.
Landmark Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. CF Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Landmark Bancorp pays out 39.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CF Bankshares pays out 10.0% 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. Landmark Bancorp has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and CF Bankshares has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Landmark Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
CF Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Landmark Bancorp. CF Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Landmark Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
25.7% of Landmark Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of CF Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.2% of Landmark Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of CF Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CF Bankshares had 1 more articles in the media than Landmark Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for CF Bankshares and 3 mentions for Landmark Bancorp. Landmark Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat CF Bankshares' score of 0.93 indicating that CF Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CF Bankshares beats Landmark Bancorp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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