CFSB vs. BCBP, WNEB, FGBI, BVFL, CZWI, FSFG, FNWD, SFBC, FCAP, and HMNF
Should you be buying CFSB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CFSB Bancorp include BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), BV Financial (BVFL), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), First Savings Financial Group (FSFG), Finward Bancorp (FNWD), Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC), First Capital (FCAP), and HMN Financial (HMNF). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
CFSB Bancorp (NASDAQ:CFSB) and BCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCBP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, BCB Bancorp had 9 more articles in the media than CFSB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for BCB Bancorp and 2 mentions for CFSB Bancorp. BCB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat CFSB Bancorp's score of 1.43 indicating that BCB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BCB Bancorp received 141 more outperform votes than CFSB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.49% of users gave BCB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave CFSB Bancorp an outperform vote.
1.4% of CFSB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.0% of BCB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of CFSB Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of BCB Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BCB Bancorp has a net margin of 13.41% compared to CFSB Bancorp's net margin of -0.18%. BCB Bancorp's return on equity of 9.71% beat CFSB Bancorp's return on equity.
BCB Bancorp has a consensus target price of $12.75, indicating a potential upside of 27.50%. Given BCB Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BCB Bancorp is more favorable than CFSB Bancorp.
BCB Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than CFSB Bancorp.
CFSB Bancorp has a beta of 0.12, suggesting that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BCB Bancorp has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BCB Bancorp beats CFSB Bancorp on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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