ESSA vs. TSBK, PBIP, FNWB, WEBK, FSBW, CFFN, TREE, TRST, HIFS, and FFIC
Should you be buying ESSA Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESSA Bancorp include Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Prudential Bancorp (PBIP), First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB), Wellesley Bancorp (WEBK), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), LendingTree (TREE), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), and Flushing Financial (FFIC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
ESSA Bancorp (NASDAQ:ESSA) and Timberland Bancorp (NASDAQ:TSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, dividends and earnings.
Timberland Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ESSA Bancorp. Timberland Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESSA Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Timberland Bancorp has a net margin of 25.38% compared to ESSA Bancorp's net margin of 16.84%. Timberland Bancorp's return on equity of 10.64% beat ESSA Bancorp's return on equity.
ESSA Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Timberland Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. ESSA Bancorp pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Timberland Bancorp pays out 31.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Timberland Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
54.2% of ESSA Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Timberland Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of ESSA Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Timberland Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ESSA Bancorp has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Timberland Bancorp has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ESSA Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Timberland Bancorp'saverage media sentiment score.
Timberland Bancorp received 123 more outperform votes than ESSA Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.23% of users gave Timberland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.57% of users gave ESSA Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Timberland Bancorp beats ESSA Bancorp on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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