IROQ vs. CLST, TCBC, NSTS, FFBW, FSEA, CFSB, BYFC, LSBK, CPBI, and MSVB
Should you be buying IF Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IF Bancorp include Catalyst Bancorp (CLST), TC Bancshares (TCBC), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), FFBW (FFBW), First Seacoast Bancorp (FSEA), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Lake Shore Bancorp (LSBK), Central Plains Bancshares (CPBI), and Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Catalyst Bancorp (NASDAQ:CLST) and IF Bancorp (NASDAQ:IROQ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Catalyst Bancorp has a net margin of 5.35% compared to Catalyst Bancorp's net margin of 4.52%. Catalyst Bancorp's return on equity of 2.75% beat IF Bancorp's return on equity.
Catalyst Bancorp has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IF Bancorp has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
IF Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Catalyst Bancorp. Catalyst Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IF Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Catalyst Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than IF Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Catalyst Bancorp and 2 mentions for IF Bancorp. Catalyst Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat IF Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that IF Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IF Bancorp received 106 more outperform votes than Catalyst Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.03% of users gave IF Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Catalyst Bancorp an outperform vote.
33.1% of Catalyst Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of IF Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Catalyst Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of IF Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
IF Bancorp beats Catalyst Bancorp on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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