IROQ vs. CLST, TCBC, NSTS, LSBK, TBNK, CFSB, FFBW, BYFC, FSEA, and CPBI
Should you be buying IF Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IF Bancorp include Catalyst Bancorp (CLST), TC Bancshares (TCBC), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), Lake Shore Bancorp (LSBK), Territorial Bancorp (TBNK), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), FFBW (FFBW), Broadway Financial (BYFC), First Seacoast Bancorp (FSEA), and Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Grand Island (CPBI). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Catalyst Bancorp (NASDAQ:CLST) and IF Bancorp (NASDAQ:IROQ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings and risk.
33.1% of Catalyst Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of IF Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Catalyst Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of IF Bancorp 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.
Catalyst Bancorp has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IF Bancorp has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Catalyst Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than IF Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Catalyst Bancorp and 1 mentions for IF Bancorp. Catalyst Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat IF Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that IF Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IF Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Catalyst Bancorp. IF Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Catalyst Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Catalyst Bancorp has a net margin of 5.35% compared to Catalyst Bancorp's net margin of 4.79%. Catalyst Bancorp's return on equity of 2.71% beat IF Bancorp's return on equity.
IF Bancorp received 106 more outperform votes than Catalyst Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.03% of users gave IF Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Catalyst Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
IF Bancorp beats Catalyst Bancorp on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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