TCBS vs. ISTR, PEBK, FUNC, FCCO, HWBK, SBNY, UBFO, FSFG, CZWI, and ECBK
Should you be buying Texas Community Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Texas Community Bancshares include Investar (ISTR), Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina (PEBK), First United (FUNC), First Community (FCCO), Hawthorn Bancshares (HWBK), Signature Bank (SBNY), United Security Bancshares (UBFO), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), and ECB Bancorp (ECBK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Texas Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBS) and Investar (NASDAQ:ISTR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Investar has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Community Bancshares. Texas Community Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Investar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Investar received 216 more outperform votes than Texas Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.17% of users gave Investar an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Texas Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Texas Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Investar pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Texas Community Bancshares pays out -20.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Investar pays out 22.3% 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.
In the previous week, Investar had 6 more articles in the media than Texas Community Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Investar and 2 mentions for Texas Community Bancshares. Texas Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Investar's score of 0.65 indicating that Texas Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Investar has a net margin of 10.04% compared to Texas Community Bancshares' net margin of -13.16%. Investar's return on equity of 6.76% beat Texas Community Bancshares' return on equity.
Investar has a consensus price target of $16.75, indicating a potential downside of 10.81%. Given Investar's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Investar is more favorable than Texas Community Bancshares.
15.8% of Texas Community Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of Investar shares are held by institutional investors. 19.1% of Texas Community Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Investar shares are held by 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.
Summary
Investar beats Texas Community Bancshares on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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