HBCP vs. FSBW, PCSB, TSBK, ESSA, SMBC, BHLB, OCFC, DCOM, BRKL, and CFFN
Should you be buying Home Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Bancorp include FS Bancorp (FSBW), PCSB Financial (PCSB), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), and Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
FS Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBW) and Home Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBCP) 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, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
63.9% of FS Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of Home Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of FS Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Home 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.
In the previous week, FS Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Home Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for FS Bancorp and 10 mentions for Home Bancorp. Home Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat FS Bancorp's score of 0.42 indicating that FS Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Home Bancorp received 22 more outperform votes than FS Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.67% of users gave FS Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Home Bancorp an outperform vote.
FS Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.87%. Home Bancorp has a consensus price target of $45.75, suggesting a potential upside of 0.75%. Given Home Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe FS Bancorp is more favorable than Home Bancorp.
FS Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Home Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. FS Bancorp pays out 22.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Bancorp pays out 21.1% 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. FS Bancorp has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. FS Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
FS Bancorp has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Bancorp has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Home Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FS Bancorp. FS Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Home Bancorp has a net margin of 19.16% compared to Home Bancorp's net margin of 18.05%. Home Bancorp's return on equity of 13.65% beat FS Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
FS Bancorp beats Home Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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