SBT vs. PFS, BRKL, CFFN, HTBI, KRNY, NFBK, FMAO, NRIM, WSBF, and PDLB
Should you be buying Sterling Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sterling Bancorp include Provident Financial Services (PFS), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), and Ponce Financial Group (PDLB). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Sterling Bancorp (NASDAQ:SBT) and Provident Financial Services (NYSE:PFS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Provident Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Sterling Bancorp. Provident Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sterling Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Provident Financial Services has a net margin of 16.78% compared to Sterling Bancorp's net margin of 5.79%. Provident Financial Services' return on equity of 7.31% beat Sterling Bancorp's return on equity.
Provident Financial Services received 125 more outperform votes than Sterling Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.57% of users gave Sterling Bancorp an outperform vote while only 60.08% of users gave Provident Financial Services an outperform vote.
26.4% of Sterling Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.0% of Provident Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Sterling Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Provident Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Provident Financial Services had 3 more articles in the media than Sterling Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Provident Financial Services and 1 mentions for Sterling Bancorp. Sterling Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Provident Financial Services' score of 0.43 indicating that Sterling Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Provident Financial Services has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.58%. Given Provident Financial Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Provident Financial Services is more favorable than Sterling Bancorp.
Sterling Bancorp has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Provident Financial Services has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Provident Financial Services beats Sterling Bancorp on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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