KRNY vs. WSBF, PFC, NWBI, PFS, BHLB, OCFC, BRKL, DCOM, CFFN, and TREE
Should you be buying Kearny Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kearny Financial include Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Premier Financial (PFC), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), and LendingTree (TREE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Waterstone Financial (NASDAQ:WSBF) and Kearny Financial (NASDAQ:KRNY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Waterstone Financial has a net margin of 5.45% compared to Waterstone Financial's net margin of 4.80%. Waterstone Financial's return on equity of 4.05% beat Kearny Financial's return on equity.
Kearny Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Waterstone Financial. Kearny Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waterstone Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.7% of Waterstone Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Kearny Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Waterstone Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Kearny Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Waterstone Financial has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kearny Financial has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Waterstone Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Kearny Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Waterstone Financial pays out 115.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kearny Financial pays out 176.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Kearny Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Waterstone Financial. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Kearny Financial and 3 mentions for Waterstone Financial. Waterstone Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Kearny Financial's score of 0.98 indicating that Kearny Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kearny Financial received 60 more outperform votes than Waterstone Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.11% of users gave Kearny Financial an outperform vote while only 52.59% of users gave Waterstone Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Kearny Financial beats Waterstone Financial on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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