WAFD vs. BANC, NWBI, WSFS, OCFC, DCOM, TBBK, WSBC, NBTB, TRMK, and FRME
Should you be buying WaFd stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WaFd include Banc of California (BANC), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), WSFS Financial (WSFS), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Bancorp (TBBK), WesBanco (WSBC), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Trustmark (TRMK), and First Merchants (FRME).
WaFd (NASDAQ:WAFD) and Banc of California (NYSE:BANC) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.
WaFd presently has a consensus target price of $34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.82%. Banc of California has a consensus target price of $16.64, suggesting a potential upside of 16.22%. Given WaFd's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe WaFd is more favorable than Banc of California.
WaFd has higher revenue and earnings than Banc of California. Banc of California is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WaFd, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WaFd pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Banc of California pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. WaFd pays out 39.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banc of California pays out -12.0% 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.
In the previous week, Banc of California had 18 more articles in the media than WaFd. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Banc of California and 21 mentions for WaFd. Banc of California's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat WaFd's score of -0.01 indicating that Banc of California is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
WaFd has a net margin of 15.33% compared to Banc of California's net margin of -29.10%. WaFd's return on equity of 10.02% beat Banc of California's return on equity.
WaFd has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banc of California has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
83.7% of WaFd shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Banc of California shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of WaFd shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Banc of California shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Banc of California received 92 more outperform votes than WaFd when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.93% of users gave Banc of California an outperform vote while only 49.43% of users gave WaFd an outperform vote.
Summary
WaFd beats Banc of California on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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