BCBP vs. PDLB, WNEB, FGBI, CVLY, BVFL, CZWI, WSBF, FSFG, FNWD, and SFBC
Should you be buying BCB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BCB Bancorp include Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), BV Financial (BVFL), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), and Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Ponce Financial Group (NASDAQ:PDLB) and BCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCBP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
64.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.0% of BCB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of BCB Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BCB Bancorp has a net margin of 13.41% compared to BCB Bancorp's net margin of 3.64%. Ponce Financial Group's return on equity of 9.71% beat BCB Bancorp's return on equity.
BCB Bancorp received 55 more outperform votes than Ponce Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.49% of users gave BCB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.42% of users gave Ponce Financial Group an outperform vote.
Ponce Financial Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BCB Bancorp has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BCB Bancorp has a consensus target price of $12.75, suggesting a potential upside of 17.84%. Given Ponce Financial Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BCB Bancorp is more favorable than Ponce Financial Group.
BCB Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Ponce Financial Group. BCB 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.
In the previous week, BCB Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Ponce Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BCB Bancorp and 0 mentions for Ponce Financial Group. Ponce Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat BCB Bancorp's score of 0.93 indicating that BCB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BCB Bancorp beats Ponce Financial Group on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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