TFSL vs. UMPQ, AX, EBC, BKU, FBC, MTG, RDN, SMPL, WD, and NYCB
Should you be buying TFS Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TFS Financial include Umpqua (UMPQ), Axos Financial (AX), Eastern Bankshares (EBC), BankUnited (BKU), Flagstar Bancorp (FBC), MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Walker & Dunlop (WD), and New York Community Bancorp (NYCB).
Umpqua (NASDAQ:UMPQ) and TFS Financial (NASDAQ:TFSL) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
TFS Financial has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.86%. Given Umpqua's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TFS Financial is more favorable than Umpqua.
In the previous week, Umpqua had 1 more articles in the media than TFS Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Umpqua and 2 mentions for TFS Financial. Umpqua's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat TFS Financial's score of 0.08 indicating that TFS Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Umpqua received 18 more outperform votes than TFS Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.49% of users gave TFS Financial an outperform vote while only 44.65% of users gave Umpqua an outperform vote.
90.3% of Umpqua shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.8% of TFS Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Umpqua shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of TFS Financial shares are held by 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.
Umpqua has a net margin of 24.99% compared to Umpqua's net margin of 11.08%. TFS Financial's return on equity of 14.96% beat Umpqua's return on equity.
Umpqua has higher revenue and earnings than TFS Financial. Umpqua is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFS Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Umpqua pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. TFS Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Umpqua pays out 54.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TFS Financial pays out 418.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Umpqua has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TFS Financial has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Umpqua beats TFS Financial on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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