GCBC vs. SMBC, HIFS, HBCP, HFWA, TCBX, FSBW, BLFY, NECB, TSBK, and ESSA
Should you be buying Greene County Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greene County Bancorp include Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Heritage Financial (HFWA), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), and ESSA Bancorp (ESSA). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
Southern Missouri Bancorp (NASDAQ:SMBC) and Greene County Bancorp (NASDAQ:GCBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Southern Missouri Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $51.50, suggesting a potential upside of 17.82%. Given Greene County Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Southern Missouri Bancorp is more favorable than Greene County Bancorp.
49.5% of Southern Missouri Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of Greene County Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Southern Missouri Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Greene County Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern Missouri Bancorp has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greene County Bancorp has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Southern Missouri Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Greene County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Southern Missouri Bancorp pays out 22.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greene County Bancorp pays out 20.3% 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. Greene County Bancorp has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Greene County Bancorp has a net margin of 24.60% compared to Greene County Bancorp's net margin of 17.39%. Southern Missouri Bancorp's return on equity of 14.42% beat Greene County Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Southern Missouri Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Greene County Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Southern Missouri Bancorp and 1 mentions for Greene County Bancorp. Southern Missouri Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Greene County Bancorp's score of 0.63 indicating that Greene County Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Southern Missouri Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Greene County Bancorp. Southern Missouri Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greene County Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Southern Missouri Bancorp received 56 more outperform votes than Greene County Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.38% of users gave Southern Missouri Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.59% of users gave Greene County Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Southern Missouri Bancorp beats Greene County Bancorp on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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