CZWI vs. MLVF, CLDB, HMNF, PBBI, SFBC, KRNY, NRIM, FMAO, SBT, and WSBF
Should you be buying Citizens Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens Community Bancorp include Malvern Bancorp (MLVF), Cortland Bancorp (CLDB), HMN Financial (HMNF), PB Bancorp (PBBI), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), and Waterstone Financial (WSBF).
Malvern Bancorp (NASDAQ:MLVF) and Citizens Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:CZWI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Citizens Community Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Malvern Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Citizens Community Bancorp and 0 mentions for Malvern Bancorp. Malvern Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Citizens Community Bancorp's score of 0.51 indicating that Citizens Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
54.1% of Malvern Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.1% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Malvern Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Citizens Community Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Malvern Bancorp has a net margin of 16.83% compared to Malvern Bancorp's net margin of 13.69%. Malvern Bancorp's return on equity of 8.14% beat Citizens Community Bancorp's return on equity.
Malvern Bancorp received 28 more outperform votes than Citizens Community Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.85% of users gave Citizens Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.96% of users gave Malvern Bancorp an outperform vote.
Malvern Bancorp has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens Community Bancorp has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens Community Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Malvern Bancorp. Citizens Community Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Malvern Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Citizens Community Bancorp beats Malvern Bancorp on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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