BVFL vs. HTBI, NFBK, KRNY, NRIM, FMAO, SBT, WSBF, PDLB, CVLY, and BCBP
Should you be buying BV Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BV Financial include HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), and BCB Bancorp (BCBP). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
BV Financial (NASDAQ:BVFL) and HomeTrust Bancshares (NASDAQ:HTBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
42.7% of BV Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.9% of HomeTrust Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of HomeTrust Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
HomeTrust Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than BV Financial. BV Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HomeTrust Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HomeTrust Bancshares has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.66%. Given HomeTrust Bancshares' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe HomeTrust Bancshares is more favorable than BV Financial.
In the previous week, HomeTrust Bancshares had 2 more articles in the media than BV Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for HomeTrust Bancshares and 3 mentions for BV Financial. BV Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat HomeTrust Bancshares' score of 0.62 indicating that BV Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BV Financial has a net margin of 27.28% compared to HomeTrust Bancshares' net margin of 20.87%. HomeTrust Bancshares' return on equity of 11.86% beat BV Financial's return on equity.
HomeTrust Bancshares received 205 more outperform votes than BV Financial when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
HomeTrust Bancshares beats BV Financial on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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