TCBX vs. FSBW, HBCP, NECB, BLFY, TSBK, HIFS, ESSA, PVBC, CLLS, and WMPN
Should you be buying Third Coast Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Third Coast Bancshares include FS Bancorp (FSBW), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), Cellectis (CLLS), and William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN).
Third Coast Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBX) and FS Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBW) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
36.9% of Third Coast Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of FS Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Third Coast Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of FS Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Third Coast Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $22.67, indicating a potential upside of 5.33%. Given Third Coast Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Third Coast Bancshares is more favorable than FS Bancorp.
FS Bancorp received 214 more outperform votes than Third Coast Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.86% of users gave FS Bancorp an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Third Coast Bancshares an outperform vote.
FS Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Third Coast Bancshares. FS Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Third Coast Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FS Bancorp has a net margin of 18.69% compared to Third Coast Bancshares' net margin of 11.64%. FS Bancorp's return on equity of 14.49% beat Third Coast Bancshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, FS Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Third Coast Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for FS Bancorp and 0 mentions for Third Coast Bancshares. Third Coast Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat FS Bancorp's score of 0.35 indicating that Third Coast Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Third Coast Bancshares has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FS Bancorp has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FS Bancorp beats Third Coast Bancshares on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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