Before Investing, Assess Sound Financial Bancorp's Fundamentals

By Tamara Parker • Wednesday, October 11 12:02 • Permanent Link

We're taking a closer look at Sound Financial Bancorp today, as the chatter surrounding the stock has increased notably in the last few weeks. Today, its shares moved 0.0% compared to -0.0% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:

Sound Financial Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Sound Community Bank that provides banking and other financial services for consumers and businesses.
Sound Financial Bancorp has moved -8.0% over the last year compared to 23.0% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -31.0%
Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $4.03
Sound Financial Bancorp has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 9.1 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 0.94 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Sound Financial Bancorp is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 14.34 and an average P/B of 1.57
Sound Financial Bancorp has on average reported free cash flows of $10.28 Million over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 0.0%

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