HMNF vs. PROV, FCAP, RVSB, MGYR, SFBC, OFED, FNWD, FSFG, TBNK, and LSBK
Should you be buying HMN Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HMN Financial include Provident Financial (PROV), First Capital (FCAP), Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), Magyar Bancorp (MGYR), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), Oconee Federal Financial (OFED), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Territorial Bancorp (TBNK), and Lake Shore Bancorp (LSBK). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Provident Financial (NASDAQ:PROV) and HMN Financial (NASDAQ:HMNF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Provident Financial has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HMN Financial has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.
71.3% of Provident Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of HMN Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.1% of Provident Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of HMN Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Provident Financial had 15 more articles in the media than HMN Financial. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Provident Financial and 0 mentions for HMN Financial. Provident Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat HMN Financial's score of -0.25 indicating that HMN Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Provident Financial currently has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.95%. Given HMN Financial's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Provident Financial is more favorable than HMN Financial.
Provident Financial has a net margin of 12.57% compared to Provident Financial's net margin of 10.57%. HMN Financial's return on equity of 5.56% beat Provident Financial's return on equity.
Provident Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. HMN Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Provident Financial pays out 53.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HMN Financial pays out 24.8% 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. HMN Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Provident Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than HMN Financial. Provident Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HMN Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Provident Financial received 172 more outperform votes than HMN Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.62% of users gave HMN Financial an outperform vote while only 46.05% of users gave Provident Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Provident Financial beats HMN Financial on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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