FFIC vs. HMST, CATC, TRST, FFNW, MPB, RBB, RRBI, MOFG, BWB, and FSBC
Should you be buying Flushing Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flushing Financial include HomeStreet (HMST), Cambridge Bancorp (CATC), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), First Financial Northwest (FFNW), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), RBB Bancorp (RBB), Red River Bancshares (RRBI), MidWestOne Financial Group (MOFG), Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB), and Five Star Bancorp (FSBC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Flushing Financial (NASDAQ:FFIC) and HomeStreet (NASDAQ:HMST) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Flushing Financial has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HomeStreet has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HomeStreet received 18 more outperform votes than Flushing Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.14% of users gave HomeStreet an outperform vote while only 52.13% of users gave Flushing Financial an outperform vote.
Flushing Financial has a net margin of 6.81% compared to HomeStreet's net margin of -6.23%. Flushing Financial's return on equity of 4.31% beat HomeStreet's return on equity.
In the previous week, Flushing Financial had 1 more articles in the media than HomeStreet. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Flushing Financial and 9 mentions for HomeStreet. HomeStreet's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Flushing Financial's score of -0.10 indicating that HomeStreet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Flushing Financial currently has a consensus price target of $15.17, suggesting a potential upside of 32.46%. HomeStreet has a consensus price target of $12.17, suggesting a potential upside of 10.91%. Given Flushing Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Flushing Financial is more favorable than HomeStreet.
67.1% of Flushing Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.7% of HomeStreet shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Flushing Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of HomeStreet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Flushing Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than HomeStreet. HomeStreet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flushing Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Flushing Financial beats HomeStreet on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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