CIA vs. VERY, AAME, LFT, UBFO, OFS, OPI, RMBI, NAZ, BANX, and FCCO
Should you be buying Citizens stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens include Vericity (VERY), Atlantic American (AAME), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), United Security Bancshares (UBFO), OFS Capital (OFS), Office Properties Income Trust (OPI), Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (RMBI), Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), and First Community (FCCO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens (NYSE:CIA) and Vericity (NASDAQ:VERY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Citizens received 202 more outperform votes than Vericity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave Vericity an outperform vote while only 59.45% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote.
Citizens has higher revenue and earnings than Vericity. Vericity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
13.7% of Citizens shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.9% of Vericity shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Citizens shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Vericity shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens has a net margin of 9.94% compared to Vericity's net margin of -7.59%. Citizens' return on equity of 14.46% beat Vericity's return on equity.
Citizens has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vericity has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vericity had 5 more articles in the media than Citizens. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Vericity and 3 mentions for Citizens. Vericity's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Citizens' score of -0.15 indicating that Vericity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Citizens beats Vericity on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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