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A Look Into Financial Services Sector Value Stocks

What is a Value Stock?

A value stock is traditionally defined in terms of how investors in the marketplace are valuing that company's future growth prospects. Low P/E multiples are good base indicators that the company is undervalued and can most likely be labelled as a value stock.

Below is a list of notable value stocks in the financial services sector:

  1. Freedom Holding (NASDAQ:FRHC) - P/E: 6.59
  2. Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) - P/E: 9.88
  3. Peoples Financial Servs (NASDAQ:PFIS) - P/E: 8.53
  4. Berkshire Hills Bancorp (NYSE:BHLB) - P/E: 9.97
  5. X Financial (NYSE:XYF) - P/E: 1.37

Most recently, Freedom Holding reported earnings per share at $0.85, whereas in Q2 earnings per share sat at $3.44. Banner has reported Q1 earnings per share at $1.33, which has decreased by 9.52% compared to Q4, which was 1.47. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 3.06%, which has increased by 0.36% from last quarter's yield of 2.7%.

This quarter, Peoples Financial Servs experienced an increase in earnings per share, which was $0.95 in Q4 and is now $1.33. Its most recent dividend yield is at 3.14%, which has decreased by 0.02% from 3.16% in the previous quarter.

Berkshire Hills Bancorp's earnings per share for Q1 sits at $0.43, whereas in Q4, they were at 0.42. Its most recent dividend yield is at 1.9%, which has increased by 0.25% from 1.65% in the previous quarter.

X Financial's earnings per share for Q1 sits at $0.43, whereas in Q4, they were at 0.51.

The Significance: A value stock may need some time to rebound from its undervalued position. The risk of investing in a value stock is that this emergence may never materialize.

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