EBC vs. FBC, TFSL, AX, BKU, CLBK, PFS, BRKL, CFFN, HTBI, and NFBK
Should you be buying Eastern Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastern Bankshares include Flagstar Bancorp (FBC), TFS Financial (TFSL), Axos Financial (AX), BankUnited (BKU), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), and Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) and Flagstar Bancorp (NYSE:FBC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Flagstar Bancorp received 398 more outperform votes than Eastern Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.07% of users gave Flagstar Bancorp an outperform vote while only 48.89% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote.
Eastern Bankshares currently has a consensus price target of $15.25, indicating a potential upside of 11.31%. Given Eastern Bankshares' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Eastern Bankshares is more favorable than Flagstar Bancorp.
Flagstar Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Eastern Bankshares. Eastern Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flagstar Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastern Bankshares has a net margin of 49.59% compared to Flagstar Bancorp's net margin of 18.78%. Flagstar Bancorp's return on equity of 10.52% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.
71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Flagstar Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Flagstar Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Flagstar Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Eastern Bankshares pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flagstar Bancorp pays out 4.7% 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.
Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flagstar Bancorp has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Eastern Bankshares had 9 more articles in the media than Flagstar Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Eastern Bankshares and 0 mentions for Flagstar Bancorp. Eastern Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Flagstar Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Eastern Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Flagstar Bancorp beats Eastern Bankshares on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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