CULL vs. LSBK, MGYR, VBFC, WEBK, IROQ, TCBX, FSBW, NECB, BLFY, and TSBK
Should you be buying Cullman Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cullman Bancorp include Lake Shore Bancorp (LSBK), Magyar Bancorp (MGYR), Village Bank and Trust Financial (VBFC), Wellesley Bancorp (WEBK), IF Bancorp (IROQ), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), and Timberland Bancorp (TSBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Cullman Bancorp (NASDAQ:CULL) and Lake Shore Bancorp (NASDAQ:LSBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Cullman Bancorp has a net margin of 16.90% compared to Lake Shore Bancorp's net margin of 11.16%. Lake Shore Bancorp's return on equity of 4.91% beat Cullman Bancorp's return on equity.
Lake Shore Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Cullman Bancorp. Lake Shore Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cullman Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
25.7% of Cullman Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.8% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Cullman 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, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cullman Bancorp has a beta of 0.05, suggesting that its share price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lake Shore Bancorp has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cullman Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Lake Shore Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Cullman Bancorp pays out 24.0% 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.
In the previous week, Cullman Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Lake Shore Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Cullman Bancorp and 4 mentions for Lake Shore Bancorp. Lake Shore Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Cullman Bancorp's score of -0.52 indicating that Lake Shore Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lake Shore Bancorp received 83 more outperform votes than Cullman Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Cullman Bancorp and Lake Shore Bancorp tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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