ESSA vs. CFFN, TRST, TREE, HIFS, NFBK, FFIC, KRNY, HBCP, WSBF, and FFNW
Should you be buying ESSA Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESSA Bancorp include Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), LendingTree (TREE), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), and First Financial Northwest (FFNW). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
ESSA Bancorp vs.
ESSA Bancorp (NASDAQ:ESSA) and Capitol Federal Financial (NASDAQ:CFFN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
ESSA Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Capitol Federal Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. ESSA Bancorp pays out 34.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Capitol Federal Financial pays out 87.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Capitol Federal Financial has a consensus price target of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.84%. Given Capitol Federal Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Capitol Federal Financial is more favorable than ESSA Bancorp.
Capitol Federal Financial received 100 more outperform votes than ESSA Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.87% of users gave ESSA Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.58% of users gave Capitol Federal Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ESSA Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Capitol Federal Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ESSA Bancorp and 2 mentions for Capitol Federal Financial. Capitol Federal Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat ESSA Bancorp's score of 0.05 indicating that Capitol Federal Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ESSA Bancorp has a net margin of 14.83% compared to Capitol Federal Financial's net margin of 12.67%. ESSA Bancorp's return on equity of 7.33% beat Capitol Federal Financial's return on equity.
Capitol Federal Financial has higher revenue and earnings than ESSA Bancorp. ESSA Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capitol Federal Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
54.2% of ESSA Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.5% of Capitol Federal Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of ESSA Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Capitol Federal Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ESSA Bancorp has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capitol Federal Financial has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Capitol Federal Financial beats ESSA Bancorp on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ESSA) was last updated on 2/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff