LSBK vs. MGYR, IROQ, PROV, HMNF, CLDB, SBT, WSBF, PDLB, BCBP, and WNEB
Should you be buying Lake Shore Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lake Shore Bancorp include Magyar Bancorp (MGYR), IF Bancorp (IROQ), Provident Financial (PROV), HMN Financial (HMNF), Cortland Bancorp (CLDB), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), and Western New England Bancorp (WNEB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Lake Shore Bancorp (NASDAQ:LSBK) and Magyar Bancorp (NASDAQ:MGYR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.
Magyar Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Lake Shore Bancorp. Magyar Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lake Shore Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Magyar Bancorp has a net margin of 15.19% compared to Lake Shore Bancorp's net margin of 11.81%. Magyar Bancorp's return on equity of 6.94% beat Lake Shore Bancorp's return on equity.
Lake Shore Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Magyar Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Lake Shore Bancorp pays out 101.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Magyar Bancorp pays out 16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
8.8% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.3% of Magyar Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Magyar Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lake Shore Bancorp has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Magyar Bancorp has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Magyar Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Lake Shore Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Magyar Bancorp and 1 mentions for Lake Shore Bancorp. Magyar Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Lake Shore Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Magyar Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lake Shore Bancorp received 24 more outperform votes than Magyar Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Lake Shore Bancorp an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Magyar Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Magyar Bancorp beats Lake Shore Bancorp on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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