BLFY vs. TSBK, NECB, FRST, FSBW, ESSA, PVBC, CZNC, TCBX, FMAO, and HBCP
Should you be buying Blue Foundry Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Foundry Bancorp include Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Primis Financial (FRST), FS Bancorp (FSBW), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), and Home Bancorp (HBCP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) and Timberland Bancorp (NASDAQ:TSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Timberland Bancorp received 270 more outperform votes than Blue Foundry Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.23% of users gave Timberland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Blue Foundry Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Blue Foundry Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Timberland Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Blue Foundry Bancorp and 1 mentions for Timberland Bancorp. Timberland Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Blue Foundry Bancorp's score of 1.88 indicating that Timberland Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blue Foundry Bancorp has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Timberland Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Timberland Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Foundry Bancorp. Blue Foundry Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Timberland Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Timberland Bancorp has a net margin of 25.38% compared to Blue Foundry Bancorp's net margin of -10.89%. Timberland Bancorp's return on equity of 10.64% beat Blue Foundry Bancorp's return on equity.
Blue Foundry Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.51%. Given Blue Foundry Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Blue Foundry Bancorp is more favorable than Timberland Bancorp.
56.5% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Timberland Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Timberland Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Timberland Bancorp beats Blue Foundry Bancorp on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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