HONE vs. OFG, FBK, MBIN, TFIN, RNST, BANR, LKFN, LOB, EFSC, and CUBI
Should you be buying HarborOne Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HarborOne Bancorp include OFG Bancorp (OFG), FB Financial (FBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Renasant (RNST), Banner (BANR), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), and Customers Bancorp (CUBI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
OFG Bancorp (NYSE:OFG) and HarborOne Bancorp (NASDAQ:HONE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
OFG Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than HarborOne Bancorp. OFG Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HarborOne Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OFG Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.64%. Given HarborOne Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe OFG Bancorp is more favorable than HarborOne Bancorp.
In the previous week, HarborOne Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than OFG Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for HarborOne Bancorp and 0 mentions for OFG Bancorp. HarborOne Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat OFG Bancorp's score of 0.29 indicating that OFG Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OFG Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. HarborOne Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. OFG Bancorp pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HarborOne Bancorp pays out 86.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. OFG Bancorp has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and HarborOne Bancorp has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
OFG Bancorp has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HarborOne Bancorp has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OFG Bancorp received 22 more outperform votes than HarborOne Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.15% of users gave OFG Bancorp an outperform vote while only 62.41% of users gave HarborOne Bancorp an outperform vote.
92.7% of OFG Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.0% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of OFG Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of HarborOne 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.
OFG Bancorp has a net margin of 23.00% compared to OFG Bancorp's net margin of 5.38%. HarborOne Bancorp's return on equity of 16.10% beat OFG Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
OFG Bancorp beats HarborOne Bancorp on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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