TSBK vs. BLFY, NECB, ESSA, FSBW, PVBC, TCBX, HBCP, ECBK, WMPN, and AFBI
Should you be buying Timberland Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Timberland Bancorp include Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), Home Bancorp (HBCP), ECB Bancorp (ECBK), William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN), and Affinity Bancshares (AFBI). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
Timberland Bancorp (NASDAQ:TSBK) and Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Blue Foundry Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than Timberland Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Blue Foundry Bancorp and 8 mentions for Timberland Bancorp. Timberland Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Blue Foundry Bancorp's score of -0.34 indicating that Timberland Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
65.5% of Timberland Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Timberland Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Blue Foundry Bancorp has a consensus target price of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.20%. Given Blue Foundry Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Blue Foundry Bancorp is more favorable than Timberland Bancorp.
Timberland Bancorp has a net margin of 25.38% compared to Blue Foundry Bancorp's net margin of -10.89%. Timberland Bancorp's return on equity of 10.70% beat Blue Foundry Bancorp's return on equity.
Timberland Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Foundry Bancorp has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Timberland Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Foundry Bancorp. Blue Foundry Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Timberland Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Timberland Bancorp received 270 more outperform votes than Blue Foundry Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.23% of users gave Timberland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Blue Foundry Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Timberland Bancorp beats Blue Foundry Bancorp on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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