OCFC vs. BRKL, DCOM, PFS, PFC, CFFN, NWBI, NFBK, KRNY, CLBK, and WAFD
Should you be buying OceanFirst Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OceanFirst Financial include Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Premier Financial (PFC), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Columbia Financial (CLBK), and WaFd (WAFD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) and OceanFirst Financial (NASDAQ:OCFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
OceanFirst Financial received 58 more outperform votes than Brookline Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.20% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.28% of users gave OceanFirst Financial an outperform vote.
Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. OceanFirst Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Brookline Bancorp pays out 62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OceanFirst Financial pays out 46.8% 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.
78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of OceanFirst Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Brookline Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of OceanFirst Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
OceanFirst Financial has a net margin of 15.54% compared to OceanFirst Financial's net margin of 12.31%. OceanFirst Financial's return on equity of 7.87% beat Brookline Bancorp's return on equity.
Brookline Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $11.38, suggesting a potential upside of 19.23%. OceanFirst Financial has a consensus price target of $18.20, suggesting a potential upside of 17.65%. Given OceanFirst Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brookline Bancorp is more favorable than OceanFirst Financial.
In the previous week, OceanFirst Financial had 23 more articles in the media than Brookline Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for OceanFirst Financial and 6 mentions for Brookline Bancorp. OceanFirst Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Brookline Bancorp's score of 0.42 indicating that Brookline Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OceanFirst Financial has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
OceanFirst Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Brookline Bancorp. OceanFirst Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookline Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Brookline Bancorp beats OceanFirst Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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