BFIN vs. TREE, HIFS, FFIC, NFBK, KRNY, HBCP, WSBF, HMST, ESSA, and FFNW
Should you be buying BankFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BankFinancial include LendingTree (TREE), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Flushing Financial (FFIC), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), HomeStreet (HMST), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), and First Financial Northwest (FFNW). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
BankFinancial vs.
BankFinancial (NASDAQ:BFIN) and LendingTree (NASDAQ:TREE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
LendingTree received 402 more outperform votes than BankFinancial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.61% of users gave LendingTree an outperform vote while only 50.69% of users gave BankFinancial an outperform vote.
LendingTree has a consensus target price of $64.00, suggesting a potential upside of 47.77%. Given LendingTree's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LendingTree is more favorable than BankFinancial.
BankFinancial has a net margin of 10.60% compared to LendingTree's net margin of -4.72%. BankFinancial's return on equity of 5.04% beat LendingTree's return on equity.
BankFinancial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LendingTree. LendingTree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BankFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, LendingTree had 19 more articles in the media than BankFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for LendingTree and 0 mentions for BankFinancial. LendingTree's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat BankFinancial's score of 0.00 indicating that LendingTree is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BankFinancial has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LendingTree has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
74.9% of BankFinancial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of LendingTree shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of BankFinancial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of LendingTree shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
LendingTree beats BankFinancial on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BFIN) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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