FSBC vs. BYFC, HFBL, IBTX, HTLF, OFG, FBK, MBIN, TFIN, RNST, and BANR
Should you be buying Five Star Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Five Star Bancorp include Broadway Financial (BYFC), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), OFG Bancorp (OFG), FB Financial (FBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Renasant (RNST), and Banner (BANR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Five Star Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBC) and Broadway Financial (NASDAQ:BYFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Broadway Financial had 4 more articles in the media than Five Star Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Broadway Financial and 3 mentions for Five Star Bancorp. Five Star Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Broadway Financial's score of 0.61 indicating that Five Star Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Five Star Bancorp has a net margin of 23.84% compared to Broadway Financial's net margin of 4.93%. Five Star Bancorp's return on equity of 16.12% beat Broadway Financial's return on equity.
Five Star Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Broadway Financial.
46.9% of Five Star Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.1% of Broadway Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.6% of Five Star Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Broadway Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Broadway Financial received 7 more outperform votes than Five Star Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.06% of users gave Five Star Bancorp an outperform vote while only 33.48% of users gave Broadway Financial an outperform vote.
Five Star Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 17.80%. Given Five Star Bancorp's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Five Star Bancorp is more favorable than Broadway Financial.
Five Star Bancorp has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Broadway Financial has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Five Star Bancorp beats Broadway Financial on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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