RVSB vs. PROV, HMNF, FCAP, OFED, TBNK, MGYR, SFBC, FNWD, FFBW, and TCBC
Should you be buying Riverview Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Riverview Bancorp include Provident Financial (PROV), HMN Financial (HMNF), First Capital (FCAP), Oconee Federal Financial (OFED), Territorial Bancorp (TBNK), Magyar Bancorp (MGYR), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), FFBW (FFBW), and TC Bancshares (TCBC). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Provident Financial (NASDAQ:PROV) and Riverview Bancorp (NASDAQ:RVSB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Provident Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Riverview Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Provident Financial pays out 53.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Riverview Bancorp pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Riverview Bancorp has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years. Riverview Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Provident Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Riverview Bancorp. Provident Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Riverview Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Provident Financial presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.64%. Given Riverview Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Provident Financial is more favorable than Riverview Bancorp.
In the previous week, Provident Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Riverview Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Provident Financial and 2 mentions for Riverview Bancorp. Riverview Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Provident Financial's score of 0.33 indicating that Provident Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Provident Financial has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Riverview Bancorp has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Riverview Bancorp received 43 more outperform votes than Provident Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.40% of users gave Riverview Bancorp an outperform vote while only 45.87% of users gave Provident Financial an outperform vote.
Provident Financial has a net margin of 12.57% compared to Provident Financial's net margin of 5.69%. Riverview Bancorp's return on equity of 5.56% beat Provident Financial's return on equity.
71.3% of Provident Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Riverview Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 15.1% of Provident Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of Riverview Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Provident Financial beats Riverview Bancorp on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RVSB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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