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Sound Financial Bancorp (SFBC) Competitors

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$49.86 +0.39 (+0.78%)
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SFBC vs. YRD, MPB, SMBK, NPB, CBNK, QD, LDI, GNTY, HONE, and ALRS

Should you be buying Sound Financial Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sound Financial Bancorp include Yiren Digital (YRD), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), SmartFinancial (SMBK), Northpointe Bancshares (NPB), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Qudian (QD), loanDepot (LDI), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), and Alerus Financial (ALRS). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Sound Financial Bancorp vs.

Sound Financial Bancorp (NASDAQ:SFBC) and Yiren Digital (NYSE:YRD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.

68.8% of Sound Financial Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of Yiren Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 12.6% of Sound Financial Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 42.2% of Yiren Digital shares are held 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.

In the previous week, Yiren Digital had 4 more articles in the media than Sound Financial Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Yiren Digital and 0 mentions for Sound Financial Bancorp. Yiren Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Sound Financial Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Yiren Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Sound Financial Bancorp Neutral
Yiren Digital Positive

Sound Financial Bancorp has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yiren Digital has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Yiren Digital received 264 more outperform votes than Sound Financial Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.21% of users gave Yiren Digital an outperform vote while only 64.71% of users gave Sound Financial Bancorp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Sound Financial BancorpOutperform Votes
66
64.71%
Underperform Votes
36
35.29%
Yiren DigitalOutperform Votes
330
70.21%
Underperform Votes
140
29.79%

Yiren Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Sound Financial Bancorp. Yiren Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sound Financial Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Sound Financial Bancorp$35.69M3.59$4.64M$1.8027.74
Yiren Digital$5.81B0.09$292.99M$2.512.28

Yiren Digital has a net margin of 32.37% compared to Sound Financial Bancorp's net margin of 7.48%. Yiren Digital's return on equity of 20.85% beat Sound Financial Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Sound Financial Bancorp7.48% 4.57% 0.43%
Yiren Digital 32.37%20.85%16.00%

Sound Financial Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Yiren Digital pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Sound Financial Bancorp pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yiren Digital pays out 15.9% 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. Yiren Digital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Yiren Digital beats Sound Financial Bancorp on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SFBC vs. The Competition

MetricSound Financial BancorpFederal savings institutions IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$128.15M$2.84B$10.84B$7.34B
Dividend Yield1.51%3.71%5.97%4.30%
P/E Ratio27.7415.5021.5317.80
Price / Sales3.593.4925.4397.74
Price / Cash14.1619.1117.6134.64
Price / Book1.270.872.563.98
Net Income$4.64M$352.78M$1.03B$247.81M
1 Month Performance-1.23%-2.43%-4.09%-7.84%
1 Year Performance26.11%11.29%531.54%1.60%

Sound Financial Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SFBC
Sound Financial Bancorp
N/A$49.94
+0.9%
N/A+24.1%$128.15M$35.69M27.74140Positive News
YRD
Yiren Digital
2.5749 of 5 stars
$5.74
-6.2%
N/A+17.8%$503.39M$5.81B1.983,800Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
MPB
Mid Penn Bancorp
4.1511 of 5 stars
$24.68
+1.8%
$36.00
+45.9%
+28.2%$477.71M$176.80M8.51620Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
SMBK
SmartFinancial
2.726 of 5 stars
$27.62
+0.1%
$30.70
+11.2%
+49.6%$469.95M$171.50M12.90550Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
NPB
Northpointe Bancshares
N/A$12.83
-0.5%
$17.25
+34.5%
N/A$440.13M$187.14M0.00541Ex-Dividend
News Coverage
CBNK
Capital Bancorp
4.7245 of 5 stars
$26.15
+0.2%
$34.50
+31.9%
+43.9%$435.50M$183.73M12.28270Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
QD
Qudian
1.4215 of 5 stars
$2.16
-5.5%
N/A+12.3%$432.30M$216.43M53.88940Positive News
LDI
loanDepot
3.1176 of 5 stars
$1.32
-9.3%
$2.03
+54.0%
-52.4%$431.69M$781.10M-2.5313,500Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
GNTY
Guaranty Bancshares
1.8024 of 5 stars
$37.50
+0.2%
$37.33
-0.4%
+38.6%$425.70M$115.61M13.64470Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
HONE
HarborOne Bancorp
4.0172 of 5 stars
$9.51
-0.4%
$13.00
+36.7%
+0.3%$422.82M$167.94M14.41640Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
ALRS
Alerus Financial
4.8583 of 5 stars
$16.47
-0.8%
$23.40
+42.1%
-14.6%$420.17M$215.87M16.15840News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:SFBC) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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