Plumas Bancorp (PLBC) Competitors

Origin Bancorp (NASDAQ:OBK) and Plumas Bancorp (NASDAQ:PLBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Is OBK or PLBC a better dividend stock?

Origin Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Plumas Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Origin Bancorp pays out 24.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Plumas Bancorp pays out 22.6% 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. Plumas Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts prefer OBK or PLBC?

Origin Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $36.80, suggesting a potential upside of 5.09%. Plumas Bancorp has a consensus price target of $54.50, suggesting a potential upside of 16.11%. Given Plumas Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Plumas Bancorp is more favorable than Origin Bancorp.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Origin Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Plumas Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor OBK or PLBC?

Plumas Bancorp received 105 more outperform votes than Origin Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.57% of users gave Origin Bancorp an outperform vote while only 63.39% of users gave Plumas Bancorp an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Origin Bancorp	Outperform Votes 11 78.57%	Underperform Votes 3 21.43%
Plumas Bancorp	Outperform Votes 116 63.39%	Underperform Votes 67 36.61%

Which has higher earnings & valuation, OBK or PLBC?

Origin Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Plumas Bancorp. Plumas Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Origin Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Origin Bancorp	$581.73M	1.88	$83.80M	$2.43	14.41
Plumas Bancorp	$85.31M	3.25	$29.78M	$4.77	9.84

Does the media favor OBK or PLBC?

In the previous week, Plumas Bancorp had 26 more articles in the media than Origin Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Plumas Bancorp and 1 mentions for Origin Bancorp. Origin Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Plumas Bancorp's score of 0.52 indicating that Origin Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Origin Bancorp	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Plumas Bancorp	3 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	14 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of OBK or PLBC?

54.7% of Origin Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Plumas Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Origin Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Plumas Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is OBK or PLBC more profitable?

Plumas Bancorp has a net margin of 31.02% compared to Origin Bancorp's net margin of 12.12%. Plumas Bancorp's return on equity of 17.31% beat Origin Bancorp's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Origin Bancorp	12.12%	7.36%	0.82%
Plumas Bancorp	31.02%	17.31%	1.73%

Which has more volatility and risk, OBK or PLBC?

Origin Bancorp has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Plumas Bancorp has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Plumas Bancorp beats Origin Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.