CVLY vs. PDLB, WSBF, BCBP, SBT, WNEB, FGBI, NRIM, BFIN, BVFL, and FMAO
Should you be buying Codorus Valley Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Codorus Valley Bancorp include Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), BankFinancial (BFIN), BV Financial (BVFL), and Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Codorus Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:CVLY) and Ponce Financial Group (NASDAQ:PDLB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
52.1% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned 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.
Codorus Valley Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.09%. Given Codorus Valley Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Codorus Valley Bancorp is more favorable than Ponce Financial Group.
Codorus Valley Bancorp received 58 more outperform votes than Ponce Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.92% of users gave Codorus Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.42% of users gave Ponce Financial Group an outperform vote.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ponce Financial Group has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ponce Financial Group. Codorus Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ponce Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Codorus Valley Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Ponce Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Codorus Valley Bancorp and 0 mentions for Ponce Financial Group. Codorus Valley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ponce Financial Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 16.66% compared to Ponce Financial Group's net margin of 3.64%. Codorus Valley Bancorp's return on equity of 12.01% beat Ponce Financial Group's return on equity.
Summary
Codorus Valley Bancorp beats Ponce Financial Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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