SWKH vs. CVLY, FSP, SSBK, MHLD, NECB, TSI, BKN, PINE, CZFS, and MVT
Should you be buying SWK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SWK include Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Southern States Bancshares (SSBK), Maiden (MHLD), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Citizens Financial Services (CZFS), and BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Codorus Valley Bancorp (NASDAQ:CVLY) and SWK (NASDAQ:SWKH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
SWK has a net margin of 42.07% compared to SWK's net margin of 16.66%. SWK's return on equity of 12.19% beat Codorus Valley Bancorp's return on equity.
52.0% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of SWK shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Codorus Valley Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of SWK 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 higher revenue and earnings than SWK. Codorus Valley Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SWK, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Codorus Valley Bancorp received 135 more outperform votes than SWK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.60% of users gave Codorus Valley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave SWK an outperform vote.
Codorus Valley Bancorp has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SWK has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Codorus Valley Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than SWK. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Codorus Valley Bancorp and 0 mentions for SWK. SWK's average media sentiment score of 0.15 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 currently has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.09%. Given SWK's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Codorus Valley Bancorp is more favorable than SWK.
Summary
Codorus Valley Bancorp beats SWK on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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