BLFY vs. TSBK, NECB, FSBW, FRST, ESSA, CZNC, PVBC, TCBX, FMAO, and HBCP
Should you be buying Blue Foundry Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Foundry Bancorp include Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Primis Financial (FRST), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), and Home Bancorp (HBCP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) and Timberland Bancorp (NASDAQ:TSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
Timberland Bancorp has a net margin of 25.38% compared to Blue Foundry Bancorp's net margin of -10.89%. Timberland Bancorp's return on equity of 10.64% beat Blue Foundry Bancorp's return on equity.
56.5% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Timberland Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Timberland Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Timberland Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Foundry Bancorp. Blue Foundry Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Timberland Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Timberland Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Blue Foundry Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Timberland Bancorp and 0 mentions for Blue Foundry Bancorp. Blue Foundry Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Timberland Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Blue Foundry Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Timberland Bancorp received 270 more outperform votes than Blue Foundry Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.23% of users gave Timberland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Blue Foundry Bancorp an outperform vote.
Blue Foundry Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $9.50, indicating a potential downside of 1.76%. Given Blue Foundry Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Blue Foundry Bancorp is more favorable than Timberland Bancorp.
Blue Foundry Bancorp has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Timberland Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Timberland Bancorp beats Blue Foundry Bancorp on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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