LSBK vs. TCBC, FFBW, TBNK, IROQ, CLST, NSTS, MGYR, OFED, CFSB, and BYFC
Should you be buying Lake Shore Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lake Shore Bancorp include TC Bancshares (TCBC), FFBW (FFBW), Territorial Bancorp (TBNK), IF Bancorp (IROQ), Catalyst Bancorp (CLST), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), Magyar Bancorp (MGYR), Oconee Federal Financial (OFED), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), and Broadway Financial (BYFC). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
TC Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBC) and Lake Shore Bancorp (NASDAQ:LSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Lake Shore Bancorp has a net margin of 11.16% compared to Lake Shore Bancorp's net margin of 1.21%. TC Bancshares' return on equity of 4.95% beat Lake Shore Bancorp's return on equity.
Lake Shore Bancorp received 83 more outperform votes than TC Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Lake Shore Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave TC Bancshares an outperform vote.
Lake Shore Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than TC Bancshares. Lake Shore Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TC Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TC Bancshares has a beta of 0.06, suggesting that its stock price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lake Shore Bancorp has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lake Shore Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than TC Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lake Shore Bancorp and 0 mentions for TC Bancshares. Lake Shore Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled TC Bancshares'average media sentiment score.
23.6% of TC Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.8% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 9.6% of TC Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Lake Shore Bancorp beats TC Bancshares on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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