BFIN vs. MLVF, FSFG, PBBI, WNEB, PROV, NFBK, HIFS, FFIC, KRNY, and HBCP
Should you be buying BankFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BankFinancial include Malvern Bancorp (MLVF), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), PB Bancorp (PBBI), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), Provident Financial (PROV), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Kearny Financial (KRNY), and Home Bancorp (HBCP).
BankFinancial (NASDAQ:BFIN) and Malvern Bancorp (NASDAQ:MLVF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
BankFinancial has higher revenue and earnings than Malvern Bancorp. BankFinancial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Malvern Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BankFinancial has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Malvern Bancorp has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Malvern Bancorp has a net margin of 16.83% compared to BankFinancial's net margin of 11.62%. BankFinancial's return on equity of 5.49% beat Malvern Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, BankFinancial had 2 more articles in the media than Malvern Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BankFinancial and 0 mentions for Malvern Bancorp. Malvern Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat BankFinancial's score of 0.00 indicating that Malvern Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BankFinancial received 6 more outperform votes than Malvern Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.88% of users gave Malvern Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.00% of users gave BankFinancial an outperform vote.
74.9% of BankFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.1% of Malvern Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of BankFinancial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Malvern Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Malvern Bancorp beats BankFinancial on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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