BSRR vs. CHCO, LKFN, FCF, NBHC, SRCE, SASR, STBA, TCBK, BUSE, and HOPE
Should you be buying Sierra Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sierra Bancorp include City (CHCO), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), National Bank (NBHC), 1st Source (SRCE), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), S&T Bancorp (STBA), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), First Busey (BUSE), and Hope Bancorp (HOPE). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Sierra Bancorp vs.
City (NASDAQ:CHCO) and Sierra Bancorp (NASDAQ:BSRR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
City received 25 more outperform votes than Sierra Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 49.67% of users gave Sierra Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.60% of users gave City an outperform vote.
City presently has a consensus target price of $116.75, suggesting a potential downside of 0.38%. Sierra Bancorp has a consensus target price of $29.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.01%. Given City's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe City is more favorable than Sierra Bancorp.
In the previous week, City and City both had 1 articles in the media. Sierra Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat City's score of 1.20 indicating that Sierra Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
72.4% of City shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of City shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Sierra Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
City has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sierra Bancorp has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
City has higher revenue and earnings than Sierra Bancorp. Sierra Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
City has a net margin of 30.83% compared to Sierra Bancorp's net margin of 19.90%. City's return on equity of 16.49% beat Sierra Bancorp's return on equity.
City pays an annual dividend of $3.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Sierra Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. City pays out 40.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sierra Bancorp pays out 35.6% 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. Sierra Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
City beats Sierra Bancorp on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BSRR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
