PDLB vs. CVLY, BCBP, WSBF, SBT, WNEB, FGBI, NRIM, BVFL, CZWI, and FMAO
Should you be buying Ponce Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ponce Financial Group include Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), BV Financial (BVFL), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), and Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Codorus Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:CVLY) and Ponce Financial Group (NASDAQ:PDLB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
In the previous week, Codorus Valley Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Ponce Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Codorus Valley Bancorp and 2 mentions for Ponce Financial Group. Ponce Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Codorus Valley Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Codorus Valley Bancorp 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, 57.14% 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.
52.1% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Ponce Financial Group shares are owned 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.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ponce Financial Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Codorus Valley Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.22%. Given Ponce Financial Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Codorus Valley Bancorp is more favorable than Ponce Financial Group.
Summary
Codorus Valley Bancorp beats Ponce Financial Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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