HBCP vs. BHLB, DCOM, OCFC, BRKL, CFFN, TREE, TRST, HIFS, NFBK, and FFIC
Should you be buying Home Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Bancorp include Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), LendingTree (TREE), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), and Flushing Financial (FFIC). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
Home Bancorp vs.
Home Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBCP) and Berkshire Hills Bancorp (NYSE:BHLB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Home Bancorp. Home Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Berkshire Hills Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Home Bancorp has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Berkshire Hills Bancorp has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
49.4% of Home Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Berkshire Hills Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of Home Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Berkshire Hills Bancorp shares are owned 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.
Home Bancorp has a net margin of 18.27% compared to Berkshire Hills Bancorp's net margin of 8.56%. Home Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat Berkshire Hills Bancorp's return on equity.
Home Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Berkshire Hills Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Home Bancorp pays out 23.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Berkshire Hills Bancorp pays out 50.0% 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.
Home Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $54.83, suggesting a potential upside of 26.20%. Berkshire Hills Bancorp has a consensus price target of $31.13, suggesting a potential upside of 32.00%. Given Berkshire Hills Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Berkshire Hills Bancorp is more favorable than Home Bancorp.
In the previous week, Home Bancorp and Home Bancorp both had 5 articles in the media. Berkshire Hills Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Home Bancorp's score of 1.17 indicating that Berkshire Hills Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp received 16 more outperform votes than Home Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.14% of users gave Home Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Berkshire Hills Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Berkshire Hills Bancorp beats Home Bancorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:HBCP) was last updated on 4/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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