PROV vs. RVSB, HMNF, LSBK, SFBC, PBBI, HBCP, WSBF, OCN, FFNW, and ESSA
Should you be buying Provident Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Provident Financial include Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), HMN Financial (HMNF), Lake Shore Bancorp (LSBK), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), PB Bancorp (PBBI), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Ocwen Financial (OCN), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), and ESSA Bancorp (ESSA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Riverview Bancorp (NASDAQ:RVSB) and Provident Financial (NASDAQ:PROV) 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, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
In the previous week, Riverview Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Provident Financial. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Riverview Bancorp and 0 mentions for Provident Financial. Riverview Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Provident Financial's score of 1.05 indicating that Provident Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
69.6% of Riverview Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Provident Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.8% of Riverview Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of Provident Financial shares are owned 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.
Provident Financial has a net margin of 12.57% compared to Provident Financial's net margin of 5.69%. Riverview Bancorp's return on equity of 5.56% beat Provident Financial's return on equity.
Provident Financial has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.37%. Given Riverview Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Provident Financial is more favorable than Riverview Bancorp.
Riverview Bancorp received 43 more outperform votes than Provident Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.09% of users gave Riverview Bancorp an outperform vote while only 45.69% of users gave Provident Financial an outperform vote.
Riverview Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Provident Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Riverview Bancorp pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Provident Financial pays out 53.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Riverview Bancorp has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years. Riverview Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Riverview Bancorp has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Provident Financial has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Provident Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Riverview Bancorp. Provident Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Riverview Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Provident Financial beats Riverview Bancorp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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