TFSL vs. PFS, AX, EBC, BKU, CLBK, PIPR, CUZ, IBOC, GRP.U, and JOE
Should you be buying TFS Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TFS Financial include Provident Financial Services (PFS), Axos Financial (AX), Eastern Bankshares (EBC), BankUnited (BKU), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Cousins Properties (CUZ), International Bancshares (IBOC), Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U), and St. Joe (JOE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Provident Financial Services (NYSE:PFS) and TFS Financial (NASDAQ:TFSL) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Provident Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. TFS Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Provident Financial Services pays out 60.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TFS Financial pays out 434.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Provident Financial Services has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TFS Financial has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Provident Financial Services currently has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.91%. TFS Financial has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.75%. Given TFS Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Provident Financial Services is more favorable than TFS Financial.
TFS Financial received 10 more outperform votes than Provident Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.95% of users gave TFS Financial an outperform vote while only 60.08% of users gave Provident Financial Services an outperform vote.
72.0% of Provident Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.8% of TFS Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Provident Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of TFS Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Provident Financial Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TFS Financial. Provident Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFS Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Provident Financial Services had 24 more articles in the media than TFS Financial. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Provident Financial Services and 1 mentions for TFS Financial. Provident Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat TFS Financial's score of 0.83 indicating that TFS Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Provident Financial Services has a net margin of 16.78% compared to Provident Financial Services' net margin of 10.97%. TFS Financial's return on equity of 7.31% beat Provident Financial Services' return on equity.
Summary
Provident Financial Services beats TFS Financial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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