FSFG vs. FNWD, SFBC, BVFL, RVSB, CZWI, FCAP, PROV, BFIN, HMNF, and FGBI
Should you be buying First Savings Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Savings Financial Group include Finward Bancorp (FNWD), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), BV Financial (BVFL), Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), First Capital (FCAP), Provident Financial (PROV), BankFinancial (BFIN), HMN Financial (HMNF), and First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Finward Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNWD) and First Savings Financial Group (NASDAQ:FSFG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
26.6% of Finward Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of First Savings Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. 13.7% of Finward Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of First Savings Financial Group shares are held 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.
Finward Bancorp has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Savings Financial Group has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
First Savings Financial Group has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.07%. Given Finward Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe First Savings Financial Group is more favorable than Finward Bancorp.
Finward Bancorp has a net margin of 8.68% compared to Finward Bancorp's net margin of 4.74%. Finward Bancorp's return on equity of 7.99% beat First Savings Financial Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, First Savings Financial Group had 2 more articles in the media than Finward Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for First Savings Financial Group and 1 mentions for Finward Bancorp. First Savings Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Finward Bancorp's score of 0.55 indicating that Finward Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Finward Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. First Savings Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Finward Bancorp pays out 24.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Savings Financial Group pays out 66.7% 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. First Savings Financial Group has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. First Savings Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
First Savings Financial Group received 224 more outperform votes than Finward Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users.
Finward Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than First Savings Financial Group. Finward Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than First Savings Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
First Savings Financial Group beats Finward Bancorp on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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