BV Financial (BVFL) Competitors

MetroCity Bankshares (NASDAQ:MCBS) and BV Financial (NASDAQ:BVFL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.

Do analysts recommend MCBS or BVFL?

MetroCity Bankshares presently has a consensus target price of $36.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.04%. Given MetroCity Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe MetroCity Bankshares is more favorable than BV Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MetroCity Bankshares	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
BV Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more risk and volatility, MCBS or BVFL?

MetroCity Bankshares has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BV Financial has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of MCBS or BVFL?

25.3% of MetroCity Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of BV Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.5% of MetroCity Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of BV Financial 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.

Is MCBS or BVFL more profitable?

BV Financial has a net margin of 26.18% compared to MetroCity Bankshares' net margin of 25.54%. MetroCity Bankshares' return on equity of 14.97% beat BV Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MetroCity Bankshares	25.54%	14.97%	1.66%
BV Financial	26.18%	6.27%	1.43%

Does the media prefer MCBS or BVFL?

In the previous week, MetroCity Bankshares had 9 more articles in the media than BV Financial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for MetroCity Bankshares and 1 mentions for BV Financial. BV Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat MetroCity Bankshares' score of 0.57 indicating that BV Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
MetroCity Bankshares	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
BV Financial	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, MCBS or BVFL?

MetroCity Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than BV Financial. MetroCity Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BV Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
MetroCity Bankshares	$211.03M	3.89	$51.61M	$2.32	13.97
BV Financial	$47.18M	4.21	$13.71M	$1.19	14.40

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer MCBS or BVFL?

MetroCity Bankshares received 18 more outperform votes than BV Financial when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
MetroCity Bankshares	Outperform Votes 18 43.90%	Underperform Votes 23 56.10%
BV Financial	N/A	N/A

Summary

MetroCity Bankshares beats BV Financial on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.