LEGH vs. CATC, MSBI, VGM, DSU, VKQ, GAIN, HTBK, EQBK, SRG, and MYD
Should you be buying Legacy Housing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legacy Housing include Cambridge Bancorp (CATC), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals (VGM), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), Equity Bancshares (EQBK), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), and BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Legacy Housing (NASDAQ:LEGH) and Cambridge Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Legacy Housing had 20 more articles in the media than Cambridge Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Legacy Housing and 6 mentions for Cambridge Bancorp. Cambridge Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Legacy Housing's score of 0.91 indicating that Cambridge Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
89.4% of Legacy Housing shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.5% of Cambridge Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.2% of Legacy Housing shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Cambridge Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Legacy Housing has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cambridge Bancorp. Legacy Housing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cambridge Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Legacy Housing has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cambridge Bancorp has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Legacy Housing presently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.95%. Cambridge Bancorp has a consensus price target of $73.15, indicating a potential upside of 5.15%. Given Cambridge Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cambridge Bancorp is more favorable than Legacy Housing.
Cambridge Bancorp received 36 more outperform votes than Legacy Housing when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.59% of users gave Legacy Housing an outperform vote while only 56.19% of users gave Cambridge Bancorp an outperform vote.
Legacy Housing has a net margin of 29.70% compared to Cambridge Bancorp's net margin of 10.11%. Legacy Housing's return on equity of 12.33% beat Cambridge Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Legacy Housing beats Cambridge Bancorp on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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