OCN vs. DCOM, CFFN, TREE, TRST, NFBK, FFIC, HIFS, KRNY, HBCP, and WSBF
Should you be buying Ocwen Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ocwen Financial include Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), LendingTree (TREE), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Home Bancorp (HBCP), and Waterstone Financial (WSBF). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) and Ocwen Financial (NYSE:OCN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
Dime Community Bancshares has a net margin of 11.46% compared to Dime Community Bancshares' net margin of 0.63%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 13.66% beat Ocwen Financial's return on equity.
Dime Community Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ocwen Financial. Dime Community Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ocwen Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ocwen Financial has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ocwen Financial received 125 more outperform votes than Dime Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.30% of users gave Ocwen Financial an outperform vote while only 49.31% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $26.83, suggesting a potential upside of 42.28%. Ocwen Financial has a consensus target price of $41.00, suggesting a potential upside of 65.39%. Given Dime Community Bancshares' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ocwen Financial is more favorable than Dime Community Bancshares.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than Ocwen Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 0 mentions for Ocwen Financial. Ocwen Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Dime Community Bancshares' score of 0.00 indicating that Dime Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of Ocwen Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Ocwen Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares beats Ocwen Financial on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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