PVBC vs. ESSA, WMPN, TSBK, BLFY, AFBI, ECBK, FNWB, NECB, BSBK, and SRBK
Should you be buying Provident Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Provident Bancorp include ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Affinity Bancshares (AFBI), ECB Bancorp (ECBK), First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Bogota Financial (BSBK), and SR Bancorp (SRBK). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
ESSA Bancorp (NASDAQ:ESSA) and Provident Bancorp (NASDAQ:PVBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
ESSA Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Provident Bancorp. ESSA Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Provident Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ESSA Bancorp has a net margin of 16.84% compared to ESSA Bancorp's net margin of 14.09%. Provident Bancorp's return on equity of 8.16% beat ESSA Bancorp's return on equity.
ESSA Bancorp has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Provident Bancorp has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.2% of ESSA Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.6% of Provident Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of ESSA Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Provident Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Provident Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than ESSA Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Provident Bancorp and 0 mentions for ESSA Bancorp. ESSA Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Provident Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Provident Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ESSA Bancorp received 47 more outperform votes than Provident Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.57% of users gave ESSA Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Provident Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
ESSA Bancorp beats Provident Bancorp on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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