TFSL vs. AX, AVAL, TCBI, EBC, PPBI, AB, CNO, BKU, CLBK, and RONI
Should you be buying TFS Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TFS Financial include Axos Financial (AX), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), Eastern Bankshares (EBC), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), AllianceBernstein (AB), CNO Financial Group (CNO), BankUnited (BKU), Columbia Financial (CLBK), and Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI).
TFS Financial (NASDAQ:TFSL) and Axos Financial (NYSE:AX) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation and risk.
Axos Financial has a net margin of 24.39% compared to TFS Financial's net margin of 11.08%. Axos Financial's return on equity of 18.57% beat TFS Financial's return on equity.
TFS Financial has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Axos Financial has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
9.8% of TFS Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of Axos Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of TFS Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Axos Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Axos Financial had 35 more articles in the media than TFS Financial. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Axos Financial and 7 mentions for TFS Financial. TFS Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Axos Financial's score of 0.61 indicating that TFS Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Axos Financial has higher revenue and earnings than TFS Financial. Axos Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFS Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TFS Financial presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.42%. Axos Financial has a consensus target price of $67.25, suggesting a potential upside of 16.90%. Given Axos Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Axos Financial is more favorable than TFS Financial.
TFS Financial received 208 more outperform votes than Axos Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.80% of users gave TFS Financial an outperform vote while only 53.53% of users gave Axos Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Axos Financial beats TFS Financial on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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