FFBW vs. WSBF, PDLB, CVLY, BCBP, WNEB, FGBI, BVFL, CZWI, FSFG, and FNWD
Should you be buying FFBW stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FFBW include Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), BV Financial (BVFL), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), and Finward Bancorp (FNWD). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
FFBW (NASDAQ:FFBW) and Waterstone Financial (NASDAQ:WSBF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
FFBW has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waterstone Financial has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Waterstone Financial had 2 more articles in the media than FFBW. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Waterstone Financial and 0 mentions for FFBW. Waterstone Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat FFBW's score of 0.00 indicating that Waterstone Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Waterstone Financial has higher revenue and earnings than FFBW.
Waterstone Financial has a net margin of 5.45% compared to FFBW's net margin of 0.00%. Waterstone Financial's return on equity of 3.18% beat FFBW's return on equity.
62.7% of Waterstone Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of FFBW shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Waterstone Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Waterstone Financial received 97 more outperform votes than FFBW when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.57% of users gave FFBW an outperform vote while only 52.59% of users gave Waterstone Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Waterstone Financial beats FFBW on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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