HBCP vs. DCOM, BHLB, 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 Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), 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.
Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) and Home Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBCP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Home Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dime Community Bancshares. Home Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dime Community Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of Home Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Home Bancorp shares are held 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.
Home Bancorp received 36 more outperform votes than Dime Community Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.14% of users gave Home Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.77% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Bancorp has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Home Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 169.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Home Bancorp pays out 23.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 6 more articles in the media than Home Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 4 mentions for Home Bancorp. Dime Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Home Bancorp's score of 0.72 indicating that Dime Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dime Community Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 36.38%. Home Bancorp has a consensus target price of $54.83, indicating a potential upside of 18.23%. Given Dime Community Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Home Bancorp.
Home Bancorp has a net margin of 18.27% compared to Dime Community Bancshares' net margin of 4.50%. Home Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares beats Home Bancorp on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:HBCP) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
