MGYR vs. LSBK, IROQ, BYFC, HFBL, KFFB, SBT, WSBF, PDLB, CVLY, and BCBP
Should you be buying Magyar Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Magyar Bancorp include Lake Shore Bancorp (LSBK), IF Bancorp (IROQ), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), Kentucky First Federal Bancorp (KFFB), Sterling Bancorp (SBT), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), and BCB Bancorp (BCBP). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Lake Shore Bancorp (NASDAQ:LSBK) and Magyar Bancorp (NASDAQ:MGYR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Lake Shore Bancorp received 24 more outperform votes than Magyar Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.34% of users gave Lake Shore Bancorp an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Magyar Bancorp an outperform vote.
Lake Shore Bancorp has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Magyar Bancorp has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Magyar Bancorp has a net margin of 16.44% compared to Magyar Bancorp's net margin of 11.16%. Lake Shore Bancorp's return on equity of 7.26% beat Magyar Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Magyar Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Lake Shore Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Magyar Bancorp and 3 mentions for Lake Shore Bancorp. Lake Shore Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Magyar Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Magyar Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
8.8% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.3% of Magyar Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Lake Shore Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Magyar Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lake Shore Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Magyar Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Lake Shore Bancorp pays out 25.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Magyar Bancorp pays out 16.7% 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. Magyar Bancorp has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Magyar Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Magyar Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Lake Shore Bancorp. Magyar Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lake Shore Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Magyar Bancorp beats Lake Shore Bancorp on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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