Bluegreen Vacations (OTCMKTS:BVHBB) & Heritage Southeast Bancorporation (OTCMKTS:HSBI) Critical Comparison

Bluegreen Vacations (OTCMKTS:BVHBB) and Heritage Southeast Bancorporation (OTCMKTS:HSBI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares Bluegreen Vacations and Heritage Southeast Bancorporation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bluegreen Vacations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Heritage Southeast Bancorporation	20.73%	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Bluegreen Vacations and Heritage Southeast Bancorporation, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bluegreen Vacations	0	0	0	0	N/A
Heritage Southeast Bancorporation	0	0	0	0	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Bluegreen Vacations and Heritage Southeast Bancorporation’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bluegreen Vacations	$919.43 million	1.33	$64.39 million	$3.71	19.41
Heritage Southeast Bancorporation	$75.43 million	0.00	$13.81 million	$2.19	N/A

Bluegreen Vacations has higher revenue and earnings than Heritage Southeast Bancorporation. Heritage Southeast Bancorporation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bluegreen Vacations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Bluegreen Vacations has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Southeast Bancorporation has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

20.7% of Bluegreen Vacations shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Heritage Southeast Bancorporation shares are owned by institutional investors. 88.2% of Bluegreen Vacations shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of Heritage Southeast Bancorporation shares are owned by 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.

Summary

Bluegreen Vacations beats Heritage Southeast Bancorporation on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bluegreen Vacations

Bluegreen Vacations Holding Corporation operates as a vacation ownership company. The company markets and sells vacation ownership interests (VOI); and manages resorts in leisure and urban destinations, including Orlando, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Charleston and New Orleans, and others. It also provides resort management, mortgage, title, reservation, and construction design and development services; and financing to qualified VOI purchasers, as well as management services to the vacation club and homeowners' associations. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

About Heritage Southeast Bancorporation

Heritage Southeast Bancorporation, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Heritage Southeast Bank that provides a range of commercial and consumer banking products and services primarily in North and South Metro Atlanta, southeastern Georgia, and Northeastern Florida. The company offers checking and savings, money market, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit; personal, home equity, mortgage, term, small business administration, commercial real estate, and construction loans; personal lines of credit; accounts receivable financing; credit and debit cards; and mobile, online, and telephone banking services, as well as cash management, courier, and remote deposit services. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Jonesboro, Georgia.