PDLB vs. CVLY, BCBP, WSBF, SBT, WNEB, FGBI, BVFL, CZWI, NRIM, and FSFG
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), BV Financial (BVFL), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), and First Savings Financial Group (FSFG). 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 better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and profitability.
64.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Ponce Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ponce Financial Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Codorus Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Codorus Valley Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Ponce Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Codorus Valley Bancorp and 0 mentions for Ponce Financial Group. Ponce Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Codorus Valley Bancorp'saverage media sentiment score.
Codorus Valley Bancorp received 58 more outperform votes than Ponce Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.92% of users gave Codorus Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.42% of users gave Ponce Financial Group an outperform vote.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.65%. Given Codorus Valley Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Codorus Valley Bancorp is more favorable than Ponce Financial Group.
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 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.
Summary
Codorus Valley Bancorp beats Ponce Financial Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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