TFSL vs. UMPQ, AX, EBC, BKU, FBC, MTG, RDN, SMPL, WD, and NYCB
Should you be buying TFS Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TFS Financial include Umpqua (UMPQ), Axos Financial (AX), Eastern Bankshares (EBC), BankUnited (BKU), Flagstar Bancorp (FBC), MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), Walker & Dunlop (WD), and New York Community Bancorp (NYCB).
Umpqua (NASDAQ:UMPQ) and TFS Financial (NASDAQ:TFSL) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
TFS Financial has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.22%. Given Umpqua's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TFS Financial is more favorable than Umpqua.
Umpqua has higher revenue and earnings than TFS Financial. Umpqua is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TFS Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Umpqua has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TFS Financial has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TFS Financial had 6 more articles in the media than Umpqua. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for TFS Financial and 1 mentions for Umpqua. Umpqua's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat TFS Financial's score of 0.08 indicating that TFS Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
90.3% of Umpqua shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.8% of TFS Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Umpqua shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of TFS Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Umpqua received 18 more outperform votes than TFS Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.49% of users gave TFS Financial an outperform vote while only 44.59% of users gave Umpqua an outperform vote.
Umpqua has a net margin of 24.99% compared to Umpqua's net margin of 11.08%. TFS Financial's return on equity of 14.96% beat Umpqua's return on equity.
Umpqua pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. TFS Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Umpqua pays out 54.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TFS Financial pays out 418.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Umpqua beats TFS Financial on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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