WSFS vs. BANC, WAFD, NWBI, OCFC, DCOM, FULT, BANF, SFNC, CBU, and PRK
Should you be buying WSFS Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WSFS Financial include Banc of California (BANC), WaFd (WAFD), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Fulton Financial (FULT), BancFirst (BANF), Simmons First National (SFNC), Community Bank System (CBU), and Park National (PRK). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
WSFS Financial (NASDAQ:WSFS) and Banc of California (NYSE:BANC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
88.5% of WSFS Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Banc of California shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of WSFS Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Banc of California shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
WSFS Financial has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banc of California has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Banc of California received 106 more outperform votes than WSFS Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.93% of users gave Banc of California an outperform vote while only 50.89% of users gave WSFS Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Banc of California had 14 more articles in the media than WSFS Financial. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Banc of California and 11 mentions for WSFS Financial. WSFS Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Banc of California's score of 0.10 indicating that WSFS Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
WSFS Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Banc of California pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. WSFS Financial pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banc of California pays out -12.0% 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. Banc of California is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
WSFS Financial has a net margin of 21.25% compared to Banc of California's net margin of -29.10%. WSFS Financial's return on equity of 11.96% beat Banc of California's return on equity.
WSFS Financial presently has a consensus target price of $43.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.94%. Banc of California has a consensus target price of $16.64, suggesting a potential upside of 18.12%. Given Banc of California's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Banc of California is more favorable than WSFS Financial.
WSFS Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Banc of California. Banc of California is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WSFS Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
WSFS Financial beats Banc of California on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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