HTBI vs. NRIM, NFBK, KRNY, FMAO, SBT, WSBF, CVLY, PDLB, BCBP, and PFC
Should you be buying HomeTrust Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HomeTrust Bancshares include Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), and Premier Financial (PFC).
HomeTrust Bancshares (NASDAQ:HTBI) and Northrim BanCorp (NASDAQ:NRIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
60.9% of HomeTrust Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of Northrim BanCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of HomeTrust Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Northrim BanCorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HomeTrust Bancshares has a net margin of 18.77% compared to Northrim BanCorp's net margin of 16.04%. HomeTrust Bancshares' return on equity of 11.41% beat Northrim BanCorp's return on equity.
HomeTrust Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Northrim BanCorp pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. HomeTrust Bancshares pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northrim BanCorp pays out 54.3% 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.
HomeTrust Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.17%. Given HomeTrust Bancshares' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe HomeTrust Bancshares is more favorable than Northrim BanCorp.
HomeTrust Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Northrim BanCorp. HomeTrust Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northrim BanCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HomeTrust Bancshares and HomeTrust Bancshares both had 2 articles in the media. HomeTrust Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Northrim BanCorp's score of 1.40 indicating that HomeTrust Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HomeTrust Bancshares and Northrim BanCorp both received 202 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 58.21% of users gave Northrim BanCorp an outperform vote while only 55.19% of users gave HomeTrust Bancshares an outperform vote.
HomeTrust Bancshares has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northrim BanCorp has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HomeTrust Bancshares beats Northrim BanCorp on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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