Home Bancorp (HBCP) Competitors

FS Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBW) and Home Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBCP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Do analysts recommend FSBW or HBCP?

FS Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $44.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.32%. Home Bancorp has a consensus price target of $49.17, indicating a potential downside of 0.43%. Given Home Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Home Bancorp is more favorable than FS Bancorp.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FS Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Home Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in FSBW or HBCP?

63.9% of FS Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of Home Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of FS Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Home Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, FSBW or HBCP?

FS Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is FSBW or HBCP a better dividend stock?

FS Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Home Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. FS Bancorp pays out 22.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Bancorp pays out 23.1% 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. FS Bancorp has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. FS Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Is FSBW or HBCP more profitable?

Home Bancorp has a net margin of 18.55% compared to FS Bancorp's net margin of 18.28%. FS Bancorp's return on equity of 13.42% beat Home Bancorp's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FS Bancorp	18.28%	13.42%	1.26%
Home Bancorp	18.55%	9.58%	1.07%

Does the media prefer FSBW or HBCP?

In the previous week, Home Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than FS Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Home Bancorp and 3 mentions for FS Bancorp. FS Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Home Bancorp's score of -0.10 indicating that FS Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FS Bancorp	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Home Bancorp	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has better earnings and valuation, FSBW or HBCP?

Home Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FS Bancorp. FS Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FS Bancorp	$187.68M	1.94	$36.05M	$4.71	9.87
Home Bancorp	$178.30M	2.24	$40.24M	$4.51	10.95

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FSBW or HBCP?

Home Bancorp received 22 more outperform votes than FS Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.25% of users gave FS Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave Home Bancorp an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FS Bancorp	Outperform Votes 230 64.25%	Underperform Votes 128 35.75%
Home Bancorp	Outperform Votes 252 58.06%	Underperform Votes 182 41.94%

Summary

FS Bancorp beats Home Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.