FSBC vs. LU, IREN, FBK, PPBI, INTR, FINV, CIFR, PWP, MBIN, and CASH
Should you be buying Five Star Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Five Star Bancorp include Lufax (LU), Iris Energy (IREN), FB Financial (FBK), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), FinVolution Group (FINV), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), and Pathward Financial (CASH). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Five Star Bancorp vs.
Lufax (NYSE:LU) and Five Star Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBC) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
Lufax has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five Star Bancorp has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lufax pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Five Star Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Lufax pays out -15.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Five Star Bancorp pays out 35.1% 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. Lufax is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lufax has higher revenue and earnings than Five Star Bancorp. Lufax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Five Star Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lufax had 2 more articles in the media than Five Star Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lufax and 0 mentions for Five Star Bancorp. Lufax's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Five Star Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Lufax is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lufax presently has a consensus price target of $2.98, indicating a potential downside of 3.88%. Five Star Bancorp has a consensus price target of $36.38, indicating a potential upside of 15.88%. Given Five Star Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Five Star Bancorp is more favorable than Lufax.
69.1% of Lufax shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Five Star Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.6% of Five Star Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Five Star Bancorp received 52 more outperform votes than Lufax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.48% of users gave Five Star Bancorp an outperform vote while only 41.82% of users gave Lufax an outperform vote.
Five Star Bancorp has a net margin of 21.40% compared to Lufax's net margin of -12.75%. Five Star Bancorp's return on equity of 12.89% beat Lufax's return on equity.
Summary
Five Star Bancorp beats Lufax on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:FSBC) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
