OCFC vs. BRKL, CFFN, PFC, NFBK, KRNY, WD, TFSL, SMPL, WSFS, and WAFD
Should you be buying OceanFirst Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OceanFirst Financial include Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Premier Financial (PFC), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Walker & Dunlop (WD), TFS Financial (TFSL), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), WSFS Financial (WSFS), and WaFd (WAFD).
OceanFirst Financial vs.
OceanFirst Financial (NASDAQ:OCFC) and Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) 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, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
OceanFirst Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Brookline Bancorp. OceanFirst Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookline Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OceanFirst Financial has a net margin of 15.28% compared to Brookline Bancorp's net margin of 12.04%. Brookline Bancorp's return on equity of 6.51% beat OceanFirst Financial's return on equity.
OceanFirst Financial has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OceanFirst Financial currently has a consensus target price of $19.30, suggesting a potential upside of 6.04%. Brookline Bancorp has a consensus target price of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.22%. Given OceanFirst Financial's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe OceanFirst Financial is more favorable than Brookline Bancorp.
OceanFirst Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. OceanFirst Financial pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookline Bancorp pays out 58.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Brookline Bancorp has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Brookline Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
71.0% of OceanFirst Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of OceanFirst Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Brookline Bancorp had 9 more articles in the media than OceanFirst Financial. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Brookline Bancorp and 1 mentions for OceanFirst Financial. OceanFirst Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Brookline Bancorp's score of 0.86 indicating that OceanFirst Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OceanFirst Financial received 59 more outperform votes than Brookline Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.89% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.14% of users gave OceanFirst Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
OceanFirst Financial beats Brookline Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:OCFC) was last updated on 10/31/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff