HMNF vs. SFBC, EBMT, CFBK, OVBC, FSFG, PROV, CZWI, RVSB, UBFO, and OPOF
Should you be buying HMN Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HMN Financial include Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), CF Bankshares (CFBK), Ohio Valley Banc (OVBC), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Provident Financial (PROV), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), United Security Bancshares (UBFO), and Old Point Financial (OPOF).
Sound Financial Bancorp (NASDAQ:SFBC) and HMN Financial (NASDAQ:HMNF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
HMN Financial has a net margin of 10.57% compared to HMN Financial's net margin of 10.54%. HMN Financial's return on equity of 6.01% beat Sound Financial Bancorp's return on equity.
Sound Financial Bancorp received 5 more outperform votes than HMN Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.71% of users gave Sound Financial Bancorp an outperform vote while only 61.62% of users gave HMN Financial an outperform vote.
Sound Financial Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than HMN Financial. Sound Financial Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HMN Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
68.9% of Sound Financial Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of HMN Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 12.6% of Sound Financial Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of HMN Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sound Financial Bancorp has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HMN Financial has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sound Financial Bancorp and Sound Financial Bancorp both had 3 articles in the media. Sound Financial Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat HMN Financial's score of 0.94 indicating that HMN Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sound Financial Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. HMN Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Sound Financial Bancorp pays out 32.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HMN Financial pays out 31.0% 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. Sound Financial Bancorp has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and HMN Financial has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Summary
Sound Financial Bancorp beats HMN Financial on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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