CZWI vs. BVFL, FSFG, FNWD, SFBC, FGBI, FCAP, WNEB, PROV, RVSB, and HMNF
Should you be buying Citizens Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Community Bancorp include BV Financial (BVFL), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), First Capital (FCAP), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), Provident Financial (PROV), Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), and HMN Financial (HMNF). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
BV Financial (NASDAQ:BVFL) and Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
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.
42.7% of BV Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.1% of Citizens Community Bancorp 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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 media.
Citizens Community Bancorp received 186 more outperform votes than BV Financial when rated by MarketBeat users.
BV Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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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