TCBX vs. HBCP, FSBW, NECB, BLFY, TSBK, ESSA, CLLS, HIFS, PVBC, and WMPN
Should you be buying Third Coast Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Third Coast Bancshares include Home Bancorp (HBCP), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Cellectis (CLLS), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), and William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN).
Home Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBCP) and Third Coast Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
Home Bancorp has a net margin of 20.66% compared to Home Bancorp's net margin of 11.64%. Third Coast Bancshares' return on equity of 10.65% beat Home Bancorp's return on equity.
Home Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $41.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.56%. Third Coast Bancshares has a consensus price target of $22.67, suggesting a potential upside of 4.45%. Given Third Coast Bancshares' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Home Bancorp is more favorable than Third Coast Bancshares.
Home Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Third Coast Bancshares. Home 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.
Home Bancorp received 235 more outperform votes than Third Coast Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.94% of users gave Home Bancorp an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Third Coast Bancshares an outperform vote.
49.4% of Home Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.9% of Third Coast Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of Home 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Home Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Third Coast Bancshares has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Third Coast Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than Home Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Third Coast Bancshares and 0 mentions for Home Bancorp. Home Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Third Coast Bancshares' score of 0.00 indicating that Third Coast Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Home Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Third Coast Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $16.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 77.7%. Home Bancorp pays out 21.1% 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. Home Bancorp has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years.
Summary
Home Bancorp beats Third Coast Bancshares on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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