FFIC vs. HMST, CATC, TRST, RRBI, MPB, MOFG, RBB, BWB, EBTC, and FFWM
Should you be buying Flushing Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flushing Financial include HomeStreet (HMST), Cambridge Bancorp (CATC), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Red River Bancshares (RRBI), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), MidWestOne Financial Group (MOFG), RBB Bancorp (RBB), Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB), Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC), and First Foundation (FFWM). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Flushing Financial (NASDAQ:FFIC) and HomeStreet (NASDAQ:HMST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Flushing Financial currently has a consensus price target of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 34.32%. HomeStreet has a consensus price target of $12.17, indicating a potential downside of 3.97%. Given Flushing Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Flushing Financial is more favorable than HomeStreet.
67.1% of Flushing Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.7% of HomeStreet shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Flushing Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of HomeStreet 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.
Flushing Financial has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HomeStreet has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HomeStreet received 18 more outperform votes than Flushing Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.25% of users gave HomeStreet an outperform vote while only 52.35% of users gave Flushing Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Flushing Financial had 5 more articles in the media than HomeStreet. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Flushing Financial and 1 mentions for HomeStreet. HomeStreet's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Flushing Financial's score of -0.42 indicating that HomeStreet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Flushing Financial has a net margin of 7.37% compared to HomeStreet's net margin of -6.23%. Flushing Financial's return on equity of 4.11% beat HomeStreet's return on equity.
Flushing Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. HomeStreet pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Flushing Financial pays out 83.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HomeStreet pays out -27.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Flushing Financial has higher revenue and earnings than HomeStreet. HomeStreet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flushing Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Flushing Financial beats HomeStreet on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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