Reviewing Southern California Bancorp (BCAL) & Its Competitors

Southern California Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCAL) is one of 164 public companies in the “National commercial banks” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Southern California Bancorp to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Southern California Bancorp and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Southern California Bancorp	$126.90 million	$25.91 million	10.08
Southern California Bancorp Competitors	$172.81 billion	$1.93 billion	10.48

Southern California Bancorp’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Southern California Bancorp. Southern California Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Southern California Bancorp and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Southern California Bancorp	0	1	1	0	2.50
Southern California Bancorp Competitors	1370	7754	6803	285	2.37

As a group, “National commercial banks” companies have a potential upside of 39.80%. Given Southern California Bancorp’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Southern California Bancorp has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

55.4% of Southern California Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.7% of shares of all “National commercial banks” companies are held by institutional investors. 35.9% of Southern California Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of shares of all “National commercial banks” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Southern California Bancorp and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Southern California Bancorp	20.42%	9.35%	1.12%
Southern California Bancorp Competitors	17.02%	10.89%	1.03%

Southern California Bancorp Company Profile

Southern California Bancorp operates as the holding company for Bank of Southern California, N.A. that provides various financial products to individuals, professionals, and small-to medium-sized businesses. The company offers checking, personal and business savings, and money market accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also provides home equity lines of credit, business loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate and construction loans, small business administration loans, letters of credit, and personal and business credit cards. In addition, the company provides cash vault, sweep accounts, and remote deposit capture services; online and mobile banking services; courier service; lockbox services; and merchant services. It operates branches in San Diego, Orange, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Riverside counties, as well as the Inland Empire. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.