BSBK vs. HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, NECB, BLFY, TSBK, ESSA, PVBC, AFBI, and WMPN
Should you be buying Bogota Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bogota Financial include Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), Affinity Bancshares (AFBI), and William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
Home Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBCP) and Bogota Financial (NASDAQ:BSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
Home Bancorp has a net margin of 20.66% compared to Home Bancorp's net margin of -2.00%. Bogota Financial's return on equity of 10.65% beat Home Bancorp's return on equity.
Home Bancorp has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bogota Financial has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Home Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $41.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.64%. Given Bogota Financial's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Home Bancorp is more favorable than Bogota Financial.
Home Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Bogota Financial. Bogota Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bogota Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Home Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Bogota Financial and 0 mentions for Home Bancorp. Home Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.95 beat Bogota Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Bogota Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
49.4% of Home Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.6% of Bogota Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of Home Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Bogota Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Home Bancorp received 241 more outperform votes than Bogota Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.94% of users gave Home Bancorp an outperform vote while only 26.92% of users gave Bogota Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Home Bancorp beats Bogota Financial on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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