HMN Financial (HMNF) Competitors

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

Do analysts recommend PBBI or HMNF?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PB Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
HMN Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, PBBI or HMNF?

HMN Financial has higher revenue and earnings than PB Bancorp.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PB Bancorp	$21.31M	5.33	$4.31M	N/A	N/A
HMN Financial	$51.76M	2.28	$6.01M	$1.29	20.47

Is PBBI or HMNF more profitable?

PB Bancorp has a net margin of 16.91% compared to PB Bancorp's net margin of 9.33%. PB Bancorp's return on equity of 5.28% beat HMN Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PB Bancorp	16.91%	4.33%	0.69%
HMN Financial	9.33%	5.28%	0.49%

Which has more volatility & risk, PBBI or HMNF?

PB Bancorp has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HMN Financial has a beta of 0.21, meaning that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PBBI or HMNF?

PB Bancorp received 45 more outperform votes than HMN Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.47% of users gave PB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 61.62% of users gave HMN Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PB Bancorp	Outperform Votes 106 63.47%	Underperform Votes 61 36.53%
HMN Financial	Outperform Votes 61 61.62%	Underperform Votes 38 38.38%

Is PBBI or HMNF a better dividend stock?

PB Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. HMN Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. HMN Financial pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in PBBI or HMNF?

36.8% of PB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of HMN Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of PB Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of HMN Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer PBBI or HMNF?

In the previous week, HMN Financial had 5 more articles in the media than PB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for HMN Financial and 2 mentions for PB Bancorp. PB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat HMN Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that HMN Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
PB Bancorp	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
HMN Financial	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

PB Bancorp beats HMN Financial on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.