TREE vs. BANC, AGM, NWBI, PFS, BHLB, OCFC, BRKL, DCOM, CFFN, and TRST
Should you be buying LendingTree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LendingTree include Banc of California (BANC), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), 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 TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
LendingTree (NASDAQ:TREE) and Banc of California (NYSE:BANC) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings and risk.
LendingTree has a net margin of -21.07% compared to Banc of California's net margin of -29.10%. Banc of California's return on equity of 2.25% beat LendingTree's return on equity.
LendingTree has a beta of 2.13, suggesting that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banc of California has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
68.3% of LendingTree shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Banc of California shares are held by institutional investors. 23.4% of LendingTree shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Banc of California 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.
In the previous week, Banc of California had 5 more articles in the media than LendingTree. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Banc of California and 2 mentions for LendingTree. Banc of California's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat LendingTree's score of 0.50 indicating that Banc of California is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LendingTree currently has a consensus target price of $48.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.34%. Banc of California has a consensus target price of $16.31, indicating a potential upside of 25.10%. Given Banc of California's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Banc of California is more favorable than LendingTree.
LendingTree has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Banc of California. LendingTree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banc of California, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LendingTree received 296 more outperform votes than Banc of California when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.59% of users gave LendingTree an outperform vote while only 58.86% of users gave Banc of California an outperform vote.
Summary
LendingTree and Banc of California tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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