BVFL vs. CZWI, FSFG, FNWD, SFBC, WNEB, FGBI, FCAP, PROV, RVSB, and HMNF
Should you be buying BV Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BV Financial include Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), First Capital (FCAP), Provident Financial (PROV), Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), and HMN Financial (HMNF). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI) and BV Financial (NASDAQ:BVFL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
55.1% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of BV Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens Community Bancorp received 186 more outperform votes than BV Financial when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Citizens Community Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than BV Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Citizens Community Bancorp and 4 mentions for BV Financial. Citizens Community Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat BV Financial's score of 1.29 indicating that BV Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BV Financial has a net margin of 27.28% compared to BV Financial's net margin of 13.69%. BV Financial's return on equity of 8.14% beat Citizens Community Bancorp's return on equity.
BV Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Citizens Community Bancorp. BV Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens Community Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Citizens Community Bancorp beats BV Financial on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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