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First US Bancshares (FUSB) Competitors

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$13.12 -0.11 (-0.83%)
As of 02/21/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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FUSB vs. CZFS, PBFS, CBAN, FSBW, OBT, GHI, FRBA, COFS, SFST, and PCB

Should you be buying First US Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First US Bancshares include Citizens Financial Services (CZFS), Pioneer Bancorp (PBFS), Colony Bankcorp (CBAN), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Orange County Bancorp (OBT), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), First Bank (FRBA), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), and PCB Bancorp (PCB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

First US Bancshares vs.

Citizens Financial Services (NASDAQ:CZFS) and First US Bancshares (NASDAQ:FUSB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

In the previous week, Citizens Financial Services had 2 more articles in the media than First US Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Citizens Financial Services and 1 mentions for First US Bancshares. First US Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.95 beat Citizens Financial Services' score of 1.00 indicating that First US Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Citizens Financial Services
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
First US Bancshares
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Citizens Financial Services has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First US Bancshares has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

First US Bancshares received 58 more outperform votes than Citizens Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.23% of users gave Citizens Financial Services an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave First US Bancshares an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Citizens Financial ServicesOutperform Votes
18
69.23%
Underperform Votes
8
30.77%
First US BancsharesOutperform Votes
76
57.14%
Underperform Votes
57
42.86%

Citizens Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than First US Bancshares. First US Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Citizens Financial Services$169.72M1.66$27.82M$5.8710.05
First US Bancshares$61.84M1.21$8.17M$1.339.86

22.5% of Citizens Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.7% of First US Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Citizens Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of First US Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Citizens Financial Services currently has a consensus price target of $53.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.20%. Given Citizens Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Citizens Financial Services is more favorable than First US Bancshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Citizens Financial Services
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
First US Bancshares
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Citizens Financial Services has a net margin of 16.39% compared to First US Bancshares' net margin of 13.21%. Citizens Financial Services' return on equity of 9.93% beat First US Bancshares' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Citizens Financial Services16.39% 9.93% 0.97%
First US Bancshares 13.21%8.61%0.75%

Citizens Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. First US Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Citizens Financial Services pays out 33.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First US Bancshares pays out 21.1% 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.

Summary

Citizens Financial Services beats First US Bancshares on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FUSB vs. The Competition

MetricFirst US BancsharesState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$75.62M$3.23B$11.72B$9.15B
Dividend Yield2.12%3.67%5.37%3.85%
P/E Ratio9.8624.1324.1519.13
Price / Sales1.212.1726.4470.72
Price / Cash7.5510.6417.9134.83
Price / Book0.851.242.594.62
Net Income$8.17M$372.21M$1.03B$245.94M
7 Day Performance-2.89%-2.62%-1.41%-2.62%
1 Month Performance0.23%-0.06%0.67%-2.15%
1 Year Performance26.40%23.03%14.93%12.95%

First US Bancshares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FUSB
First US Bancshares
2.2105 of 5 stars
$13.12
-0.8%
N/A+26.8%$75.62M$61.84M9.86180Positive News
High Trading Volume
CZFS
Citizens Financial Services
3.2125 of 5 stars
$64.90
+2.9%
$53.00
-18.3%
+24.4%$308.92M$169.72M11.06310News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
PBFS
Pioneer Bancorp
0.4046 of 5 stars
$11.87
-1.0%
N/A+27.6%$308.26M$104.65M16.26260
CBAN
Colony Bankcorp
2.1664 of 5 stars
$17.49
+0.4%
N/A+50.4%$306.37M$176.62M12.95520
FSBW
FS Bancorp
4.284 of 5 stars
$39.04
flat
$44.00
+12.7%
+13.2%$305.29M$206.39M8.87540Positive News
OBT
Orange County Bancorp
4.4631 of 5 stars
$26.68
+0.3%
$35.50
+33.1%
+14.4%$302.77M$107.63M10.80210Dividend Increase
News Coverage
GHI
Greystone Housing Impact Investors
3.338 of 5 stars
$12.89
-0.3%
$17.38
+34.8%
-25.2%$300.09M$104.90M20.82N/AEarnings Report
News Coverage
FRBA
First Bank
3.8692 of 5 stars
$15.20
-0.1%
$17.00
+11.8%
+8.6%$297.46M$229.43M9.10240Positive News
COFS
ChoiceOne Financial Services
1.9828 of 5 stars
$32.53
-0.7%
$39.00
+19.9%
+21.7%$291.47M$139.10M9.98380High Trading Volume
SFST
Southern First Bancshares
3.2654 of 5 stars
$35.68
-1.4%
N/A-1.3%$291.15M$213.35M18.58290
PCB
PCB Bancorp
4.8678 of 5 stars
$20.15
-0.9%
$22.00
+9.2%
+21.8%$287.54M$191.91M11.58250Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:FUSB) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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