ESSA vs. HBCP, HIFS, PVBC, TSBK, BLFY, ECBK, WMPN, NECB, AFBI, and FNWB
Should you be buying ESSA Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ESSA Bancorp include Home Bancorp (HBCP), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), ECB Bancorp (ECBK), William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Affinity Bancshares (AFBI), and First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
Home Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBCP) and ESSA Bancorp (NASDAQ:ESSA) 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.
Home Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than ESSA Bancorp. Home Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ESSA Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Home Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ESSA Bancorp has a beta of 0.31, meaning that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Home Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. ESSA Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Home Bancorp pays out 21.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ESSA Bancorp pays out 32.4% 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. Home Bancorp has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, ESSA Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Home Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for ESSA Bancorp and 3 mentions for Home Bancorp. ESSA Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Home Bancorp's score of 0.16 indicating that Home Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Home Bancorp has a net margin of 20.66% compared to Home Bancorp's net margin of 16.84%. ESSA Bancorp's return on equity of 10.80% beat Home Bancorp's return on equity.
Home Bancorp received 101 more outperform votes than ESSA Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.57% of users gave ESSA Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.94% of users gave Home Bancorp an outperform vote.
Home Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $41.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.64%. Given ESSA Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Home Bancorp is more favorable than ESSA Bancorp.
49.4% of Home Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of ESSA Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Home Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of ESSA 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.
Summary
Home Bancorp beats ESSA Bancorp on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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