HNVR vs. FCCO, FRAF, UNB, CBFV, MNSB, RMBI, OVBC, EBMT, FINW, and PWOD
Should you be buying Hanover Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hanover Bancorp include First Community (FCCO), Franklin Financial Services (FRAF), Union Bankshares (UNB), CB Financial Services (CBFV), MainStreet Bancshares (MNSB), Richmond Mutual Bancorporation (RMBI), Ohio Valley Banc (OVBC), Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), FinWise Bancorp (FINW), and Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Hanover Bancorp (NASDAQ:HNVR) and First Community (NASDAQ:FCCO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Hanover Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 30.35%. First Community has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 30.03%. Given Hanover Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Hanover Bancorp is more favorable than First Community.
Hanover Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than First Community. Hanover Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than First Community, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hanover Bancorp and Hanover Bancorp both had 1 articles in the media. Hanover Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat First Community's score of 0.49 indicating that Hanover Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hanover Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. First Community pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Hanover Bancorp pays out 20.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Community pays out 39.2% 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.
Hanover Bancorp has a beta of -0.24, indicating that its stock price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Community has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
First Community received 170 more outperform votes than Hanover Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Hanover Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.82% of users gave First Community an outperform vote.
First Community has a net margin of 12.32% compared to Hanover Bancorp's net margin of 10.82%. First Community's return on equity of 8.69% beat Hanover Bancorp's return on equity.
15.0% of Hanover Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of First Community shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.8% of Hanover Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of First Community shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Hanover Bancorp beats First Community on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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