Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) Vs. BHLB, HFWA, HIFS, SMBC, HBCP, TCBX, GCBC, PCSB, PBFS, and FSBW
Should you be buying Blue Foundry Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Foundry Bancorp include Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Heritage Financial (HFWA), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), PCSB Financial (PCSB), Pioneer Bancorp (PBFS), and FS Bancorp (FSBW). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
Blue Foundry Bancorp vs.
Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) and Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
79.0% of Heritage Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.4% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Heritage Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Heritage Financial received 329 more outperform votes than Blue Foundry Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users.
Heritage Financial has a net margin of 40.37% compared to Blue Foundry Bancorp's net margin of 0.00%. Heritage Financial's return on equity of 12.23% beat Blue Foundry Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Blue Foundry Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Heritage Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Blue Foundry Bancorp and 2 mentions for Heritage Financial. Blue Foundry Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Heritage Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Blue Foundry Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Heritage Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Foundry Bancorp.
Summary
Heritage Financial beats Blue Foundry Bancorp on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BLFY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment >-1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) vs. Its Competitors
Blue Foundry Bancorp Competitors List
