Bank7 (BSVN) Competitors

Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:MBIN) and Bank7 (NASDAQ:BSVN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of MBIN or BSVN?

24.6% of Merchants Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.5% of Bank7 shares are held by institutional investors. 34.8% of Merchants Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of Bank7 shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend MBIN or BSVN?

Merchants Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $47.50, suggesting a potential upside of 46.51%. Bank7 has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.11%. Given Merchants Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Merchants Bancorp is more favorable than Bank7.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Merchants Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Bank7	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor MBIN or BSVN?

Merchants Bancorp received 135 more outperform votes than Bank7 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.72% of users gave Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote while only 59.38% of users gave Bank7 an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Merchants Bancorp	Outperform Votes 211 64.72%	Underperform Votes 115 35.28%
Bank7	Outperform Votes 76 59.38%	Underperform Votes 52 40.63%

Which has better earnings and valuation, MBIN or BSVN?

Merchants Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Bank7. Merchants Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank7, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Merchants Bancorp	$645.08M	2.31	$320.39M	$5.44	5.96
Bank7	$96.03M	3.89	$45.70M	$4.71	8.39

Is MBIN or BSVN a better dividend stock?

Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Bank7 pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Merchants Bancorp pays out 7.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank7 pays out 20.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Merchants Bancorp has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Bank7 has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.

Is MBIN or BSVN more profitable?

Bank7 has a net margin of 32.00% compared to Merchants Bancorp's net margin of 22.08%. Bank7's return on equity of 23.83% beat Merchants Bancorp's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Merchants Bancorp	22.08%	22.86%	1.76%
Bank7	32.00%	23.83%	2.64%

Does the media refer more to MBIN or BSVN?

In the previous week, Bank7 had 1 more articles in the media than Merchants Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Bank7 and 3 mentions for Merchants Bancorp. Merchants Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Bank7's score of 1.16 indicating that Merchants Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Merchants Bancorp	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Bank7	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, MBIN or BSVN?

Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank7 has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Merchants Bancorp beats Bank7 on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.