SMBC vs. GCBC, HIFS, NBBK, HFWA, HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, NECB, BLFY, and TSBK
Should you be buying Southern Missouri Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern Missouri Bancorp include Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), NB Bancorp (NBBK), Heritage Financial (HFWA), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), and Timberland Bancorp (TSBK). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
Greene County Bancorp (NASDAQ:GCBC) and Southern Missouri Bancorp (NASDAQ:SMBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.
Greene County Bancorp has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern Missouri Bancorp has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
13.4% of Greene County Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of Southern Missouri Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Greene County Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of Southern Missouri Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Southern Missouri Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Greene County Bancorp. Southern Missouri Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greene County Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Greene County Bancorp has a net margin of 21.65% compared to Greene County Bancorp's net margin of 19.77%. Southern Missouri Bancorp's return on equity of 13.06% beat Greene County Bancorp's return on equity.
Greene County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Southern Missouri Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Greene County Bancorp pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southern Missouri Bancorp pays out 18.3% 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. Greene County Bancorp has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Southern Missouri Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Southern Missouri Bancorp received 56 more outperform votes than Greene County Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.17% of users gave Southern Missouri Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.59% of users gave Greene County Bancorp an outperform vote.
Southern Missouri Bancorp has a consensus target price of $51.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.67%. Given Greene County Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Southern Missouri Bancorp is more favorable than Greene County Bancorp.
In the previous week, Southern Missouri Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Greene County Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Southern Missouri Bancorp and 4 mentions for Greene County Bancorp. Greene County Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Southern Missouri Bancorp's score of 0.57 indicating that Southern Missouri Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Southern Missouri Bancorp beats Greene County Bancorp on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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