FSBC vs. BYFC, HFBL, TOWN, SBCF, IBTX, HTLF, MBIN, FBK, TFIN, and OFG
Should you be buying Five Star Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Five Star Bancorp include Broadway Financial (BYFC), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), TowneBank (TOWN), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), FB Financial (FBK), Triumph Financial (TFIN), and OFG Bancorp (OFG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Five Star Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBC) and Broadway Financial (NASDAQ:BYFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Five Star Bancorp has a net margin of 23.84% compared to Broadway Financial's net margin of 4.93%. Five Star Bancorp's return on equity of 16.12% beat Broadway Financial's return on equity.
Broadway Financial received 7 more outperform votes than Five Star Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.06% of users gave Five Star Bancorp an outperform vote while only 33.63% of users gave Broadway Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Broadway Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Five Star Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Broadway Financial and 5 mentions for Five Star Bancorp. Five Star Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Broadway Financial's score of 0.55 indicating that Five Star Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
46.9% of Five Star Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.1% of Broadway Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.6% of Five Star Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Broadway Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Five Star Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Broadway Financial.
Five Star Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.15%. Given Five Star Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Five Star Bancorp is more favorable than Broadway Financial.
Five Star Bancorp has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Broadway Financial has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Five Star Bancorp beats Broadway Financial on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FSBC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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