CZWI vs. BVFL, FSFG, FNWD, SFBC, FGBI, FCAP, WNEB, PROV, RVSB, and HMNF
Should you be buying Citizens Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Community Bancorp include BV Financial (BVFL), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), First Capital (FCAP), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), Provident Financial (PROV), Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), and HMN Financial (HMNF). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI) and BV Financial (NASDAQ:BVFL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, BV Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Citizens Community Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for BV Financial and 3 mentions for Citizens Community Bancorp. BV Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Citizens Community Bancorp's score of 1.10 indicating that BV Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BV Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Citizens Community Bancorp. BV Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens Community Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.1% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of BV Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Citizens Community Bancorp received 187 more outperform votes than BV Financial when rated by MarketBeat users.
BV Financial has a net margin of 27.28% compared to Citizens Community Bancorp's net margin of 13.69%. Citizens Community Bancorp's return on equity of 8.14% beat BV Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Citizens Community Bancorp and BV Financial tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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