CZWI vs EARN Comparison

Citizens Community Bancorp Inc is a bank holding company that offers traditional community banking services to businesses, Agricultural operators, and consumers, including one-to-four-family residential mortgages. it also offers a variety of loan products including commercial real estate loans, commercial and industrial (C&I) loans, agricultural real estate loans, agricultural operating loans, residential mortgages, home equity lines-of-credit, and consumer loans and offers deposit products through its branches, including demand deposits, various savings and money-market accounts and certificates of deposit. The company's sources of funds are deposits; amortization, prepayments, and maturities of outstanding loans; other short- term investments; and funds provided from operations.

Ellington Credit Co is focused on corporate collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). It focuses on acquiring, investing in, and managing secondary CLO mezzanine debt and equity tranches. The company relies on risk management, including disciplined liquidity management and selective use of credit hedges, to preserve book value during times. The company primary investment objectives are to generate attractive current yields and risk-adjusted total returns for shareholders. It invest in multiple parts of the CLO capital structure, principally mezzanine debt and equity tranches. Rather than focusing only on short-term current yield, it select investments that it believe will provide a strong total return to drive a sustainable earnings stream over a long-term horizon.