BHLB vs. SMPL, TFSL, WD, NYCB, WSFS, WAFD, BANC, AGM, NWBI, and PFS
Should you be buying Berkshire Hills Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berkshire Hills Bancorp include Simply Good Foods (SMPL), TFS Financial (TFSL), Walker & Dunlop (WD), New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), WSFS Financial (WSFS), WaFd (WAFD), Banc of California (BANC), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), and Provident Financial Services (PFS). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL) and Berkshire Hills Bancorp (NYSE:BHLB) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Simply Good Foods has higher revenue and earnings than Berkshire Hills Bancorp. Simply Good Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Berkshire Hills Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Simply Good Foods has a net margin of 11.12% compared to Simply Good Foods' net margin of 3.40%. Berkshire Hills Bancorp's return on equity of 10.12% beat Simply Good Foods' return on equity.
88.5% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Berkshire Hills Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Simply Good Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Berkshire Hills Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Simply Good Foods presently has a consensus target price of $40.29, suggesting a potential upside of 4.67%. Berkshire Hills Bancorp has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.46%. Given Simply Good Foods' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Berkshire Hills Bancorp is more favorable than Simply Good Foods.
Simply Good Foods received 34 more outperform votes than Berkshire Hills Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.02% of users gave Simply Good Foods an outperform vote while only 50.28% of users gave Berkshire Hills Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Simply Good Foods had 1 more articles in the media than Berkshire Hills Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Simply Good Foods and 2 mentions for Berkshire Hills Bancorp. Berkshire Hills Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Simply Good Foods' score of 0.30 indicating that Simply Good Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Simply Good Foods has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Berkshire Hills Bancorp has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Simply Good Foods beats Berkshire Hills Bancorp on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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