HNVR vs. MCB, HONE, CCBG, FMNB, WASH, SPFI, THFF, CCNE, SMMF, and FFIC
Should you be buying Hanover Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hanover Bancorp include Metropolitan Bank (MCB), HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Farmers National Banc (FMNB), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), South Plains Financial (SPFI), First Financial (THFF), CNB Financial (CCNE), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), and Flushing Financial (FFIC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Hanover Bancorp (NASDAQ:HNVR) and Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Metropolitan Bank received 179 more outperform votes than Hanover Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Hanover Bancorp an outperform vote.
Metropolitan Bank has a net margin of 15.82% compared to Hanover Bancorp's net margin of 10.82%. Metropolitan Bank's return on equity of 10.57% beat Hanover Bancorp's return on equity.
Hanover Bancorp has a beta of -0.24, suggesting that its share price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hanover Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.58%. Metropolitan Bank has a consensus price target of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 34.36%. Given Metropolitan Bank's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than Hanover Bancorp.
In the previous week, Hanover Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Metropolitan Bank. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Hanover Bancorp and 0 mentions for Metropolitan Bank. Metropolitan Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Hanover Bancorp's score of 0.72 indicating that Metropolitan Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
15.0% of Hanover Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 24.8% of Hanover Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Hanover Bancorp. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hanover Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats Hanover Bancorp on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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