MCC vs. HNVR, NAZ, LFT, WHG, MNSB, BVFL, UNB, CNF, MRNO, and FGBI
Should you be buying PhenixFIN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PhenixFIN include Hanover Bancorp (HNVR), Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), MainStreet Bancshares (MNSB), BV Financial (BVFL), Union Bankshares (UNB), CNFinance (CNF), Murano Global Investments (MRNO), and First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
PhenixFIN (NYSE:MCC) and Hanover Bancorp (NASDAQ:HNVR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
Hanover Bancorp has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.66%. Given Hanover Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hanover Bancorp is more favorable than PhenixFIN.
Hanover Bancorp has a net margin of 10.82% compared to PhenixFIN's net margin of -391.54%. Hanover Bancorp's return on equity of 7.69% beat PhenixFIN's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hanover Bancorp had 10 more articles in the media than PhenixFIN. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Hanover Bancorp and 0 mentions for PhenixFIN. Hanover Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat PhenixFIN's score of 0.00 indicating that Hanover Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hanover Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than PhenixFIN. PhenixFIN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hanover Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PhenixFIN pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Hanover Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. PhenixFIN pays out -308.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hanover Bancorp pays out 20.4% 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. PhenixFIN is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
15.0% of Hanover Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of PhenixFIN shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.8% of Hanover Bancorp shares are owned by company 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.
PhenixFIN has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hanover Bancorp has a beta of -0.14, meaning that its share price is 114% less volatile than the S&P 500.
PhenixFIN received 347 more outperform votes than Hanover Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.87% of users gave PhenixFIN an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Hanover Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Hanover Bancorp beats PhenixFIN on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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