BHLB vs. HIFS, HBCP, NYCB, HFWA, NBBK, GCBC, SMBC, TCBX, FSBW, and CSR
Should you be buying Berkshire Hills Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Berkshire Hills Bancorp include Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Home Bancorp (HBCP), New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), Heritage Financial (HFWA), NB Bancorp (NBBK), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), and Centerspace (CSR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Hingham Institution for Savings (NASDAQ:HIFS) and Berkshire Hills Bancorp (NYSE:BHLB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.06%. Given Hingham Institution for Savings' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Berkshire Hills Bancorp is more favorable than Hingham Institution for Savings.
Hingham Institution for Savings pays an annual dividend of $2.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Berkshire Hills Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Hingham Institution for Savings pays out 22.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Berkshire Hills Bancorp pays out 144.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Hingham Institution for Savings has a net margin of 12.38% compared to Hingham Institution for Savings' net margin of 3.40%. Hingham Institution for Savings' return on equity of 8.77% beat Berkshire Hills Bancorp's return on equity.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp received 71 more outperform votes than Hingham Institution for Savings when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.62% of users gave Hingham Institution for Savings an outperform vote while only 50.47% of users gave Berkshire Hills Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Berkshire Hills Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Hingham Institution for Savings. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Berkshire Hills Bancorp and 5 mentions for Hingham Institution for Savings. Hingham Institution for Savings' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Berkshire Hills Bancorp's score of 0.89 indicating that Berkshire Hills Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Hingham Institution for Savings. Hingham Institution for Savings is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Berkshire Hills Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
49.3% of Hingham Institution for Savings shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Berkshire Hills Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Berkshire Hills Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hingham Institution for Savings has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Berkshire Hills Bancorp has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Berkshire Hills Bancorp beats Hingham Institution for Savings on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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