MGYR vs. LSBK, IROQ, BYFC, HFBL, KFFB, SBT, WSBF, PDLB, CVLY, and BCBP
Should you be buying Magyar Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Magyar Bancorp include Lake Shore Bancorp (LSBK), IF Bancorp (IROQ), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), Kentucky First Federal Bancorp (KFFB), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), and BCB Bancorp (BCBP). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Magyar Bancorp (NASDAQ:MGYR) and Lake Shore Bancorp (NASDAQ:LSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
Magyar Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Lake Shore Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Magyar Bancorp pays out 16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lake Shore Bancorp pays out 25.4% 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. Magyar Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Magyar Bancorp has a beta of 0.27, suggesting that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lake Shore Bancorp has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Magyar Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Lake Shore Bancorp. Magyar Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lake Shore Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
46.3% of Magyar Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.8% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Magyar Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lake Shore Bancorp received 24 more outperform votes than Magyar Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Lake Shore Bancorp an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Magyar Bancorp an outperform vote.
Magyar Bancorp has a net margin of 16.44% compared to Lake Shore Bancorp's net margin of 11.16%. Magyar Bancorp's return on equity of 7.26% beat Lake Shore Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Magyar Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.93 beat Lake Shore Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Magyar Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Magyar Bancorp beats Lake Shore Bancorp on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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