HFBL vs. KFFB, MSVB, CPBI, BYFC, CFSB, FSEA, NSTS, CLST, IROQ, and CARV
Should you be buying Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana include Kentucky First Federal Bancorp (KFFB), Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB), Central Plains Bancshares (CPBI), Broadway Financial (BYFC), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), First Seacoast Bancorp (FSEA), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), Catalyst Bancorp (CLST), IF Bancorp (IROQ), and Carver Bancorp (CARV). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (NASDAQ:HFBL) and Kentucky First Federal Bancorp (NASDAQ:KFFB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana has a net margin of 12.62% compared to Kentucky First Federal Bancorp's net margin of -3.85%. Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana's return on equity of 8.17% beat Kentucky First Federal Bancorp's return on equity.
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kentucky First Federal Bancorp has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana has higher revenue and earnings than Kentucky First Federal Bancorp. Kentucky First Federal Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kentucky First Federal Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Kentucky First Federal Bancorp and 2 mentions for Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana. Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Kentucky First Federal Bancorp's score of -0.01 indicating that Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana is being referred to more favorably in the media.
21.1% of Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.2% of Kentucky First Federal Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 24.8% of Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Kentucky First Federal Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana received 19 more outperform votes than Kentucky First Federal Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.31% of users gave Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Kentucky First Federal Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana beats Kentucky First Federal Bancorp on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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