BFIN vs. TRST, HIFS, TREE, NFBK, FFIC, KRNY, HBCP, WSBF, HMST, and FFNW
Should you be buying BankFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BankFinancial include TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), LendingTree (TREE), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), HomeStreet (HMST), and First Financial Northwest (FFNW). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
BankFinancial vs.
BankFinancial (NASDAQ:BFIN) and TrustCo Bank Corp NY (NASDAQ:TRST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
In the previous week, TrustCo Bank Corp NY had 7 more articles in the media than BankFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for TrustCo Bank Corp NY and 0 mentions for BankFinancial. TrustCo Bank Corp NY's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat BankFinancial's score of 0.00 indicating that TrustCo Bank Corp NY is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
74.9% of BankFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.6% of TrustCo Bank Corp NY shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of BankFinancial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of TrustCo Bank Corp NY shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
BankFinancial has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TrustCo Bank Corp NY has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BankFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. TrustCo Bank Corp NY pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. BankFinancial pays out 62.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TrustCo Bank Corp NY pays out 53.7% 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. TrustCo Bank Corp NY is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
TrustCo Bank Corp NY has higher revenue and earnings than BankFinancial. TrustCo Bank Corp NY is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BankFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BankFinancial received 50 more outperform votes than TrustCo Bank Corp NY when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.44% of users gave TrustCo Bank Corp NY an outperform vote while only 50.23% of users gave BankFinancial an outperform vote.
TrustCo Bank Corp NY has a net margin of 18.56% compared to BankFinancial's net margin of 10.60%. TrustCo Bank Corp NY's return on equity of 7.37% beat BankFinancial's return on equity.
Summary
TrustCo Bank Corp NY beats BankFinancial on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BFIN) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff