LCNB vs. ATLO, NKSH, SFST, VABK, FLIC, FUNC, BCAL, HWBK, FNLC, and UBFO
Should you be buying LCNB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LCNB include Ames National (ATLO), National Bankshares (NKSH), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Virginia National Bankshares (VABK), First of Long Island (FLIC), First United (FUNC), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), Hawthorn Bancshares (HWBK), First Bancorp (FNLC), and United Security Bancshares (UBFO). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Ames National (NASDAQ:ATLO) and LCNB (NASDAQ:LCNB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
26.5% of Ames National shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.7% of LCNB shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Ames National shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of LCNB shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ames National has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LCNB has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ames National had 4 more articles in the media than LCNB. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ames National and 2 mentions for LCNB. Ames National's average media sentiment score of 1.86 beat LCNB's score of 0.58 indicating that LCNB is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ames National has a net margin of 11.49% compared to Ames National's net margin of 10.16%. Ames National's return on equity of 7.31% beat LCNB's return on equity.
LCNB has higher revenue and earnings than Ames National. LCNB is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ames National, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LCNB received 143 more outperform votes than Ames National when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.68% of users gave LCNB an outperform vote while only 54.80% of users gave Ames National an outperform vote.
Ames National pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. LCNB pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Ames National pays out 97.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LCNB pays out 95.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ames National has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and LCNB has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. LCNB is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
LCNB beats Ames National on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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