BLFY vs. TSBK, NECB, FSBW, FRST, ESSA, CZNC, PVBC, TCBX, FMAO, and HBCP
Should you be buying Blue Foundry Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Foundry Bancorp include Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Primis Financial (FRST), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), and Home Bancorp (HBCP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Timberland Bancorp (NASDAQ:TSBK) and Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
Timberland Bancorp has a net margin of 25.38% compared to Timberland Bancorp's net margin of -10.89%. Blue Foundry Bancorp's return on equity of 10.64% beat Timberland Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Timberland Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Blue Foundry Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Timberland Bancorp and 0 mentions for Blue Foundry Bancorp. Blue Foundry Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Timberland Bancorp'saverage media sentiment score.
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.
65.5% of Timberland Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Timberland Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Timberland Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Foundry Bancorp has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Blue Foundry Bancorp has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.76%. Given Timberland Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Blue Foundry Bancorp is more favorable than Timberland Bancorp.
Summary
Timberland Bancorp beats Blue Foundry Bancorp on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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