HONE vs. CTBI, FULT, IBCP, NWBI, OCFC, TOWN, UBSI, UVSP, WSBC, and TMP
Should you be buying HarborOne Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HarborOne Bancorp include Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), Fulton Financial (FULT), Independent Bank (IBCP), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Towne Bank (TOWN), United Bankshares (UBSI), Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania (UVSP), WesBanco (WSBC), and Tompkins Financial (TMP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
HarborOne Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) and HarborOne Bancorp (NASDAQ:HONE) 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, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Community Trust Bancorp has a net margin of 22.49% compared to HarborOne Bancorp's net margin of 8.13%. Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity of 11.40% beat HarborOne Bancorp's return on equity.
Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HarborOne Bancorp has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Community Trust Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than HarborOne Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HarborOne Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. HarborOne Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 39.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HarborOne Bancorp pays out 57.1% 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. Community Trust Bancorp has raised its dividend for 44 consecutive years and HarborOne Bancorp has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Community Trust Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Community Trust Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $57.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.11%. HarborOne Bancorp has a consensus price target of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.35%. Given HarborOne Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HarborOne Bancorp is more favorable than Community Trust Bancorp.
60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.0% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Community Trust Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than HarborOne Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp and 0 mentions for HarborOne Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat HarborOne Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats HarborOne Bancorp on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:HONE) was last updated on 7/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
