FSFG vs. CZWI, BVFL, FNWD, SFBC, BFIN, FCAP, HMNF, PROV, RVSB, and FGBI
Should you be buying First Savings Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Savings Financial Group include Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), BV Financial (BVFL), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), BankFinancial (BFIN), First Capital (FCAP), HMN Financial (HMNF), Provident Financial (PROV), Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), and First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI) and First Savings Financial Group (NASDAQ:FSFG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Citizens Community Bancorp has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Savings Financial Group has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens Community Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than First Savings Financial Group. Citizens Community Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than First Savings Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.1% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of First Savings Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of First Savings Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens Community Bancorp has a net margin of 13.69% compared to Citizens Community Bancorp's net margin of 5.59%. First Savings Financial Group's return on equity of 8.14% beat Citizens Community Bancorp's return on equity.
First Savings Financial Group has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.15%. Given Citizens Community Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe First Savings Financial Group is more favorable than Citizens Community Bancorp.
In the previous week, Citizens Community Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than First Savings Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Citizens Community Bancorp and 1 mentions for First Savings Financial Group. First Savings Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Citizens Community Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Citizens Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Citizens Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. First Savings Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Citizens Community Bancorp pays out 24.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Savings Financial Group pays out 55.6% 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. Citizens Community Bancorp has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and First Savings Financial Group has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. First Savings Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
First Savings Financial Group received 37 more outperform votes than Citizens Community Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.00% of users gave Citizens Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.09% of users gave First Savings Financial Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Citizens Community Bancorp beats First Savings Financial Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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