SMBC vs. PCSB, BHLB, NBBK, HFWA, GCBC, HIFS, HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, and NECB
Should you be buying Southern Missouri Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern Missouri Bancorp include PCSB Financial (PCSB), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), NB Bancorp (NBBK), Heritage Financial (HFWA), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), and Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
PCSB Financial (NASDAQ:PCSB) and Southern Missouri Bancorp (NASDAQ:SMBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
PCSB Financial has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southern Missouri Bancorp has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
49.4% of PCSB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of Southern Missouri Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.6% of PCSB Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of Southern Missouri Bancorp shares are owned by 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.
PCSB Financial has a net margin of 24.60% compared to PCSB Financial's net margin of 19.77%. PCSB Financial's return on equity of 11.44% beat Southern Missouri Bancorp's return on equity.
Southern Missouri Bancorp received 49 more outperform votes than PCSB Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.62% of users gave PCSB Financial an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave Southern Missouri Bancorp an outperform vote.
Southern Missouri Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than PCSB Financial. Southern Missouri Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PCSB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Southern Missouri Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than PCSB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Southern Missouri Bancorp and 0 mentions for PCSB Financial. PCSB Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Southern Missouri Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Southern Missouri Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PCSB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Southern Missouri Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. PCSB Financial pays out 25.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southern Missouri Bancorp pays out 18.3% 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. Southern Missouri Bancorp has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Southern Missouri Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Southern Missouri Bancorp has a consensus target price of $51.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.30%. Given PCSB Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Southern Missouri Bancorp is more favorable than PCSB Financial.
Summary
Southern Missouri Bancorp beats PCSB Financial on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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