PDLB vs. CVLY, BCBP, WSBF, SBT, WNEB, FGBI, NRIM, BVFL, CZWI, and FMAO
Should you be buying Ponce Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ponce Financial Group include Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), BV Financial (BVFL), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), and Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Ponce Financial Group (NASDAQ:PDLB) and Codorus Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:CVLY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ponce Financial Group. Codorus Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ponce Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ponce Financial Group has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Codorus Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has a net margin of 16.66% compared to Ponce Financial Group's net margin of 3.64%. Codorus Valley Bancorp's return on equity of 12.01% beat Ponce Financial Group's return on equity.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.22%. Given Codorus Valley Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Codorus Valley Bancorp is more favorable than Ponce Financial Group.
Codorus Valley Bancorp received 58 more outperform votes than Ponce Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Codorus Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.42% of users gave Ponce Financial Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Codorus Valley Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Ponce Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Codorus Valley Bancorp and 2 mentions for Ponce Financial Group. Codorus Valley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Ponce Financial Group's score of 0.93 indicating that Codorus Valley Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
64.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Codorus Valley Bancorp beats Ponce Financial Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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