TBNK vs. PROV, FFBW, MGYR, TCBC, OFED, IROQ, CLST, NSTS, BYFC, and CFSB
Should you be buying Territorial Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Territorial Bancorp include Provident Financial (PROV), FFBW (FFBW), Magyar Bancorp (MGYR), TC Bancshares (TCBC), Oconee Federal Financial (OFED), IF Bancorp (IROQ), Catalyst Bancorp (CLST), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), Broadway Financial (BYFC), and CFSB Bancorp (CFSB). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Provident Financial (NASDAQ:PROV) and Territorial Bancorp (NASDAQ:TBNK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Provident Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Territorial Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Provident Financial pays out 48.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Territorial Bancorp pays out 35.1% 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.
Provident Financial has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Territorial Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Provident Financial received 27 more outperform votes than Territorial Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.86% of users gave Territorial Bancorp an outperform vote while only 46.41% of users gave Provident Financial an outperform vote.
Provident Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Territorial Bancorp. Provident Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Territorial Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
71.3% of Provident Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Territorial Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.1% of Provident Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Territorial Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Provident Financial had 6 more articles in the media than Territorial Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Provident Financial and 0 mentions for Territorial Bancorp. Territorial Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Provident Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Provident Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Provident Financial has a net margin of 14.43% compared to Provident Financial's net margin of 7.03%. Territorial Bancorp's return on equity of 6.20% beat Provident Financial's return on equity.
Territorial Bancorp has a consensus price target of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.07%. Given Provident Financial's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Territorial Bancorp is more favorable than Provident Financial.
Summary
Provident Financial beats Territorial Bancorp on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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