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VersaBank (VBNK) Competitors

C$23.90 -0.11 (-0.46%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

VBNK vs. SII, BITF, HIVE, WED, WFC, PTS, ML, GRN, CARE, and CFW

Should you be buying VersaBank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VersaBank include Sprott (SII), Bitfarms (BITF), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), Westaim (WED), Wall Financial (WFC), Points.com (PTS), Millennial Lithium (ML), Greenlane Renewables Inc. (GRN.V) (GRN), Dialogue Health Technologies (CARE), and Calfrac Well Services (CFW). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

VersaBank vs.

VersaBank (TSE:VBNK) and Sprott (TSE:SII) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.

VersaBank has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sprott. VersaBank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprott, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
VersaBankC$113.82M5.45C$45.72MC$1.7613.58
SprottC$182.34M8.57C$41.35MC$2.1928.08

VersaBank has a net margin of 41.04% compared to Sprott's net margin of 22.68%. Sprott's return on equity of 12.85% beat VersaBank's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
VersaBank41.04% 12.07% 1.10%
Sprott 22.68%12.85%10.25%

21.6% of VersaBank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.5% of Sprott shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.8% of VersaBank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Sprott shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

VersaBank pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Sprott pays an annual dividend of C$1.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. VersaBank pays out 5.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sprott pays out 61.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

VersaBank currently has a consensus price target of C$12.00, indicating a potential downside of 49.79%. Sprott has a consensus price target of C$67.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.94%. Given Sprott's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sprott is more favorable than VersaBank.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
VersaBank
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Sprott
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

VersaBank has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprott has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Sprott received 321 more outperform votes than VersaBank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave VersaBank an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
VersaBankOutperform Votes
2
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
SprottOutperform Votes
323
60.26%
Underperform Votes
213
39.74%

In the previous week, Sprott had 1 more articles in the media than VersaBank. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Sprott and 0 mentions for VersaBank. Sprott's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat VersaBank's score of 0.00 indicating that Sprott is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
VersaBank Neutral
Sprott Positive

Summary

Sprott beats VersaBank on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VBNK vs. The Competition

MetricVersaBankBanks IndustryFinancial SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$620.44MC$5.08BC$3.26BC$6.25B
Dividend Yield0.48%4.44%4.58%5.27%
P/E Ratio13.5856.59441.0926.81
Price / Sales5.4547.703,275.461,531.29
Price / CashN/A1.6648.2383.81
Price / Book1.570.651.483.15
Net IncomeC$45.72MC$2.54BC$396.75MC$299.38M
7 Day Performance3.91%0.03%0.14%0.76%
1 Month Performance14.63%-0.77%7.05%12.82%
1 Year Performance125.05%16.30%15.55%44.03%

VersaBank Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VBNK
VersaBank
0.6605 of 5 stars
C$23.90
-0.5%
C$12.00
-49.8%
+127.6%C$620.44MC$113.82M13.58100High Trading Volume
SII
Sprott
1.474 of 5 stars
C$61.50
+0.8%
C$67.00
+8.9%
+47.6%C$1.56BC$182.34M28.08170Dividend Increase
Ex-Dividend
Positive News
BITF
Bitfarms
2.4697 of 5 stars
C$3.03
-2.6%
C$6.50
+114.5%
+88.2%C$1.37BC$172.70M-6.06110
HIVE
HIVE Digital Technologies
0.4479 of 5 stars
C$5.78
-3.7%
C$9.00
+55.7%
+42.7%C$686.20MC$123.14M-12.2720Gap Up
WED
Westaim
0.2181 of 5 stars
C$4.91
-0.4%
C$4.75
-3.3%
+29.2%C$629.32MC$104.22M7.553,240Analyst Revision
News Coverage
WFC
Wall Financial
N/AC$18.50
-0.5%
N/A-4.2%C$594.78MC$186.46M24.03238,000News Coverage
PTS
Points.com
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$480.57MC$432.40M169.26240,000
ML
Millennial Lithium
N/AC$4.04
+2.0%
N/A+0.0%C$395.36MN/A-20.20560Gap Down
GRN
Greenlane Renewables Inc. (GRN.V)
N/AC$2.78
+16.3%
C$0.05
-98.2%
+0.0%C$368.17MC$16.93M-102.9649Gap Up
CARE
Dialogue Health Technologies
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$345.36MC$95.88M-17.13730
CFW
Calfrac Well Services
3.0971 of 5 stars
C$3.97
+0.8%
C$4.83
+21.7%
-15.5%C$340.63MC$1.66B1.77730

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This page (TSE:VBNK) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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