BRKL vs. CFFN, OCFC, NFBK, PFS, KRNY, WSBF, HTBI, FMAO, NRIM, and SBT
Should you be buying Brookline Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookline Bancorp include Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), and Sterling Bancorp (SBT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Capitol Federal Financial (NASDAQ:CFFN) and Brookline Bancorp (NASDAQ:BRKL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability and risk.
Capitol Federal Financial presently has a consensus price target of $5.75, suggesting a potential upside of 8.90%. Brookline Bancorp has a consensus price target of $11.08, suggesting a potential upside of 21.79%. Given Capitol Federal Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brookline Bancorp is more favorable than Capitol Federal Financial.
Capitol Federal Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Brookline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Capitol Federal Financial pays out -36.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookline Bancorp pays out 58.1% 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. Brookline Bancorp has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Capitol Federal Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Capitol Federal Financial and Capitol Federal Financial both had 4 articles in the media. Capitol Federal Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Brookline Bancorp's score of 0.32 indicating that Brookline Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brookline Bancorp has a net margin of 13.13% compared to Brookline Bancorp's net margin of -33.99%. Capitol Federal Financial's return on equity of 7.09% beat Brookline Bancorp's return on equity.
88.5% of Capitol Federal Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Capitol Federal Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Brookline Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Capitol Federal Financial received 27 more outperform votes than Brookline Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.05% of users gave Brookline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 54.41% of users gave Capitol Federal Financial an outperform vote.
Capitol Federal Financial has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookline Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookline Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Capitol Federal Financial. Capitol Federal Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookline Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Brookline Bancorp beats Capitol Federal Financial on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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