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.

Benzinga Insights has compiled a list of value stocks in the financial services sector that may be worth watching:

1. Enact Holdings ACT - P/E: 5.49
2. Yiren Digital YRD - P/E: 1.22
3. First Busey BUSE - P/E: 7.16
4. American Equity Inv AEL - P/E: 3.0
5. BBVA BBVA - P/E: 5.8

This quarter, Enact Holdings experienced an increase in earnings per share, which was $0.9 in Q4 and is now $1.08. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 2.65%, which has increased by 0.37% from 2.28% last quarter.

Yiren Digital's earnings per share for Q4 sits at $0.78, whereas in Q3, they were at 0.42. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 1.34%, which has increased by 1.34% from last quarter's yield of 0.0%.

First Busey looks to be undervalued. It possesses an EPS of $0.65, which has not changed since last quarter (Q4). Its most recent dividend yield is at 4.84%, which has increased by 0.89% from 3.95% in the previous quarter.

American Equity Inv saw a decrease in earnings per share from 1.29 in Q3 to $0.79 now. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 0.97%, which has ('', 'not changed') by 0.0% from last quarter's yield of 0.97%.

BBVA's earnings per share for Q1 sits at $0.31, whereas in Q4, they were at 0.26. Its most recent dividend yield is at 9.12%, which has increased by 3.95% from 5.17% in the previous quarter.

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.