MSVB vs. WNEB, FGBI, BVFL, CZWI, FSFG, SFBC, FNWD, FCAP, HMNF, and PROV
Should you be buying Mid-Southern Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mid-Southern Bancorp include Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), BV Financial (BVFL), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), First Capital (FCAP), HMN Financial (HMNF), and Provident Financial (PROV). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Mid-Southern Bancorp (NASDAQ:MSVB) and Western New England Bancorp (NASDAQ:WNEB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Mid-Southern Bancorp has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western New England Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mid-Southern Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Western New England Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Mid-Southern Bancorp pays out 44.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Western New England Bancorp pays out 46.7% 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.
Western New England Bancorp has a net margin of 11.10% compared to Mid-Southern Bancorp's net margin of 9.13%. Western New England Bancorp's return on equity of 5.43% beat Mid-Southern Bancorp's return on equity.
Western New England Bancorp received 297 more outperform votes than Mid-Southern Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.28% of users gave Western New England Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Mid-Southern Bancorp an outperform vote.
Western New England Bancorp has a consensus price target of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.38%. Given Western New England Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Western New England Bancorp is more favorable than Mid-Southern Bancorp.
Western New England Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Mid-Southern Bancorp. Western New England Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mid-Southern Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Western New England Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Mid-Southern Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Western New England Bancorp and 0 mentions for Mid-Southern Bancorp. Western New England Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Mid-Southern Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Western New England Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
10.1% of Mid-Southern Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of Western New England Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Mid-Southern Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Western New England Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Western New England Bancorp beats Mid-Southern Bancorp on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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