MSVB vs. ISTR, OPBK, SWKH, FCCO, BKKT, FSFG, FXNC, CBNA, EFSI, and LARK
Should you be buying Mid-Southern Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mid-Southern Bancorp include Investar (ISTR), OP Bancorp (OPBK), SWK (SWKH), First Community (FCCO), Bakkt (BKKT), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), First National (FXNC), Chain Bridge Bancorp (CBNA), Eagle Financial Services (EFSI), and Landmark Bancorp (LARK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Mid-Southern Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
Mid-Southern Bancorp (NASDAQ:MSVB) and Investar (NASDAQ:ISTR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Mid-Southern Bancorp has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Investar has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Investar received 223 more outperform votes than Mid-Southern Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.79% of users gave Investar an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Mid-Southern Bancorp an outperform vote.
Investar has a net margin of 13.99% compared to Mid-Southern Bancorp's net margin of 9.43%. Investar's return on equity of 8.60% beat Mid-Southern Bancorp's return on equity.
Investar has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.15%. Given Investar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Investar is more favorable than Mid-Southern Bancorp.
In the previous week, Investar had 3 more articles in the media than Mid-Southern Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Investar and 0 mentions for Mid-Southern Bancorp. Investar's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Mid-Southern Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Investar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mid-Southern Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Investar pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Mid-Southern Bancorp pays out -10.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Investar pays out 19.2% 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. Investar has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Investar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Investar has higher revenue and earnings than Mid-Southern Bancorp. Mid-Southern Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Investar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
10.1% of Mid-Southern Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of Investar shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Mid-Southern Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Investar shares are owned 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.
Summary
Investar beats Mid-Southern Bancorp on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:MSVB) was last updated on 6/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
