HNVR vs. MCB, HONE, CCBG, FMNB, WASH, SPFI, THFF, CCNE, SMMF, and FFIC
Should you be buying Hanover Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hanover Bancorp include Metropolitan Bank (MCB), HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Farmers National Banc (FMNB), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), South Plains Financial (SPFI), First Financial (THFF), CNB Financial (CCNE), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), and Flushing Financial (FFIC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) and Hanover Bancorp (NASDAQ:HNVR) 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, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Hanover Bancorp. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hanover Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hanover Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Metropolitan Bank. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Hanover Bancorp and 1 mentions for Metropolitan Bank. Hanover Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Metropolitan Bank's score of 0.95 indicating that Metropolitan Bank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Metropolitan Bank has a net margin of 15.82% compared to Metropolitan Bank's net margin of 10.82%. Hanover Bancorp's return on equity of 10.57% beat Metropolitan Bank's return on equity.
Metropolitan Bank received 179 more outperform votes than Hanover Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Hanover Bancorp an outperform vote.
Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hanover Bancorp has a beta of -0.24, indicating that its share price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Metropolitan Bank presently has a consensus price target of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.73%. Hanover Bancorp has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.58%. Given Hanover Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than Hanover Bancorp.
79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.0% of Hanover Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.8% of Hanover Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats Hanover Bancorp on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HNVR 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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