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 superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
VersaBank pays an annual dividend of C$0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. 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 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.
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.
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, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sprott received 321 more outperform votes than VersaBank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave VersaBank an outperform vote while only 60.26% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.
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.
VersaBank presently has a consensus price target of C$20.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.41%. Sprott has a consensus price target of C$67.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.76%. Given Sprott's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sprott is more favorable than VersaBank.
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 0.67 beat VersaBank's score of 0.00 indicating that Sprott is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sprott beats VersaBank on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:VBNK) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
