MGYR vs. LSBK, IROQ, BYFC, HFBL, KFFB, SBT, WSBF, PDLB, CVLY, and BCBP
Should you be buying Magyar Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Magyar Bancorp include Lake Shore Bancorp (LSBK), IF Bancorp (IROQ), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), Kentucky First Federal Bancorp (KFFB), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), and BCB Bancorp (BCBP). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Magyar Bancorp (NASDAQ:MGYR) and Lake Shore Bancorp (NASDAQ:LSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Magyar Bancorp has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lake Shore Bancorp has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Magyar Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Lake Shore Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Magyar Bancorp and 3 mentions for Lake Shore Bancorp. Magyar Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Lake Shore Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Magyar Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Magyar Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lake Shore Bancorp. Magyar Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lake Shore Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
46.3% of Magyar Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.8% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Magyar Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Magyar Bancorp has a net margin of 16.44% compared to Lake Shore Bancorp's net margin of 11.16%. Magyar Bancorp's return on equity of 7.26% beat Lake Shore Bancorp's return on equity.
Magyar Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Lake Shore Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Magyar Bancorp pays out 16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lake Shore Bancorp pays out 25.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Magyar Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lake Shore Bancorp received 24 more outperform votes than Magyar Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Lake Shore Bancorp an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Magyar Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Magyar Bancorp beats Lake Shore Bancorp on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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