CVLY vs. PDLB, WSBF, NRIM, SBT, BCBP, FMAO, WNEB, FGBI, BFIN, and BVFL
Should you be buying Codorus Valley Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Codorus Valley Bancorp include Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), BankFinancial (BFIN), and BV Financial (BVFL). 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 businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.52%. Given Ponce Financial Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Codorus Valley Bancorp is more favorable than Ponce Financial Group.
In the previous week, Codorus Valley Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Ponce Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Codorus Valley Bancorp and 6 mentions for Ponce Financial Group. Codorus Valley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Ponce Financial Group's score of 0.23 indicating that Ponce Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Codorus Valley Bancorp received 58 more outperform votes than Ponce Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.37% 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 net margin of 16.66% compared to Codorus Valley Bancorp's net margin of 3.64%. Ponce Financial Group's return on equity of 12.19% beat Codorus Valley Bancorp's return on equity.
64.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Ponce Financial Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Codorus Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Codorus Valley Bancorp beats Ponce Financial Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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