CZFS vs. CCB, FBMS, OBK, SII, FSUN, AMAL, OBNK, LX, BFC, and ML
Should you be buying Citizens Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Financial Services include Coastal Financial (CCB), First Bancshares (FBMS), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Sprott (SII), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), LexinFintech (LX), Bank First (BFC), and MoneyLion (ML). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Citizens Financial Services vs.
Coastal Financial (NASDAQ:CCB) and Citizens Financial Services (NASDAQ:CZFS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Citizens Financial Services has a net margin of 16.24% compared to Coastal Financial's net margin of 5.98%. Coastal Financial's return on equity of 13.86% beat Citizens Financial Services' return on equity.
Coastal Financial currently has a consensus price target of $81.67, suggesting a potential downside of 3.03%. Citizens Financial Services has a consensus price target of $53.00, suggesting a potential downside of 15.01%. Given Coastal Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Coastal Financial is more favorable than Citizens Financial Services.
Coastal Financial has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens Financial Services has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coastal Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Citizens Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Coastal Financial and 2 mentions for Citizens Financial Services. Coastal Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Citizens Financial Services' score of 0.77 indicating that Coastal Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
59.2% of Coastal Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.5% of Citizens Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of Coastal Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Citizens Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens Financial Services received 4 more outperform votes than Coastal Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.23% of users gave Citizens Financial Services an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Coastal Financial an outperform vote.
Coastal Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Citizens Financial Services. Citizens Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coastal Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Coastal Financial beats Citizens Financial Services on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CZFS) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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