Contrasting Bank7 (NASDAQ:BSVN) and Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI)

Bank7 (NASDAQ:BSVN) and Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares Bank7 and Customers Bancorp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bank7	31.77%	18.18%	2.34%
Customers Bancorp	18.63%	14.12%	1.17%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

23.5% of Bank7 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 25.7% of Bank7 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Bank7 and Customers Bancorp, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bank7	0	0	3	1	3.25
Customers Bancorp	0	5	6	1	2.67

Bank7 currently has a consensus price target of $54.50, indicating a potential upside of 26.77%. Customers Bancorp has a consensus price target of $87.50, indicating a potential upside of 20.52%. Given Bank7’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bank7 is more favorable than Customers Bancorp.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Bank7 and Customers Bancorp”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bank7	$137.26 million	2.98	$43.07 million	$4.66	9.23
Customers Bancorp	$1.48 billion	1.66	$224.09 million	$7.88	9.21

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

Volatility & Risk

Bank7 has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Bank7 beats Customers Bancorp on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bank7

Bank7 Corp. operates as a bank holding company for Bank7 that provides banking and financial services to individual and corporate customers. It offers commercial deposit, commercial checking, money market, and other deposit accounts; and retail deposit services, such as certificates of deposit, money market accounts, checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, and automated teller machine access. The company also provides commercial real estate, hospitality, energy, and commercial and industrial lending services; consumer lending services to individuals for personal and household purposes comprising residential real estate loans and mortgage banking services, personal lines of credit, loans for the purchase of automobiles, and other installment loans, as well as secured and unsecured term loans and home improvement loans. It operates through a network of full-service branches in Oklahoma, the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas metropolitan area, and Kansas. The company was formerly known as Haines Financial Corp. Bank7 Corp. was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

About Customers Bancorp

Customers Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Customers Bank that provides financial products and services to individual consumers, and small and middle market businesses. The company provides deposit banking products, which includes commercial and consumer checking, non-interest-bearing and interest-bearing demand, MMDA, savings, and time deposit accounts. Its lending business offers commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, and multifamily and residential mortgage loans; SBA lending and financing; specialty lending includes fund finance, real estate specialty finance, technology and venture, and healthcare and financial institutions group; commercial loans to mortgage companies, and commercial equipment financing; and fund finance, such as variable rate loans secured by collateral pools to private debt funds; and cash management services. In addition, the company provides digital banking including Banking-as-a-Service to fintech companies, payments and treasury services to businesses, and consumer loans through fintech companies and the TassatPay, a blockchain-based instant B2B payments platform which offers instant payments including over-the-counter desks, exchanges, liquidity providers, market makers, funds, and other B2B verticals. Further, it offers mobile phone and internet banking, wire transfers, electronic bill payment, lock box, remote deposit capture, courier, merchant processing, cash vault, controlled disbursements, positive pay, and cash management services, such as account reconciliation, collections, and sweep accounts. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in West Reading, Pennsylvania.