ESSA vs. TSBK, PBIP, PCSB, FNWB, WEBK, TREE, TRST, NFBK, HIFS, and FFIC
Should you be buying ESSA Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESSA Bancorp include Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Prudential Bancorp (PBIP), PCSB Financial (PCSB), First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB), Wellesley Bancorp (WEBK), LendingTree (TREE), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), and Flushing Financial (FFIC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
ESSA Bancorp (NASDAQ:ESSA) and Timberland Bancorp (NASDAQ:TSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Timberland Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than ESSA Bancorp. Timberland Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESSA Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ESSA Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than Timberland Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for ESSA Bancorp and 7 mentions for Timberland Bancorp. Timberland Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat ESSA Bancorp's score of -0.24 indicating that Timberland Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
54.2% of ESSA Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Timberland Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 7.5% of ESSA Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Timberland Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ESSA Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Timberland Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. ESSA Bancorp pays out 32.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Timberland Bancorp pays out 31.5% 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. Timberland Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Timberland Bancorp received 123 more outperform votes than ESSA Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.23% of users gave Timberland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.57% of users gave ESSA Bancorp an outperform vote.
Timberland Bancorp has a net margin of 23.98% compared to ESSA Bancorp's net margin of 15.78%. Timberland Bancorp's return on equity of 10.40% beat ESSA Bancorp's return on equity.
ESSA Bancorp has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Timberland Bancorp has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Timberland Bancorp beats ESSA Bancorp on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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