FSBW vs. TCBX, NECB, BLFY, TSBK, HBCP, ESSA, PVBC, ECBK, WMPN, and HIFS
Should you be buying FS Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FS Bancorp include Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Home Bancorp (HBCP), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), ECB Bancorp (ECBK), William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN), and Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
FS Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBW) and Third Coast Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
63.9% of FS Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.9% of Third Coast Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of FS Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Third Coast Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
FS Bancorp has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Third Coast Bancshares has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
FS Bancorp received 214 more outperform votes than Third Coast Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.04% of users gave FS Bancorp an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Third Coast Bancshares an outperform vote.
FS Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Third Coast Bancshares. FS Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Third Coast Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Third Coast Bancshares has a consensus price target of $22.67, indicating a potential upside of 13.90%. Given Third Coast Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Third Coast Bancshares is more favorable than FS Bancorp.
FS Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Third Coast Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $16.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 84.8%. FS Bancorp pays out 22.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Third Coast Bancshares pays out 831.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
FS Bancorp has a net margin of 18.69% compared to Third Coast Bancshares' net margin of 11.64%. FS Bancorp's return on equity of 14.49% beat Third Coast Bancshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, FS Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Third Coast Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for FS Bancorp and 8 mentions for Third Coast Bancshares. Third Coast Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat FS Bancorp's score of 0.43 indicating that Third Coast Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
FS Bancorp beats Third Coast Bancshares on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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