Competitive advantage assessment
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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HomeStreet, Inc. ranks #384 of 393 scored companies in Banks - Regional by moat score — the top 98%. The widest moat in the group is 1st Source Corporation (SRCE) at 86/100.
| # | Company | Moat score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 380 | ESSA Bancorp, Inc. ESSA | 0/100 | Weak |
| 381 | Evans Bancorp, Inc. EVBN | 0/100 | Weak |
| 382 | First Bancshares, Inc. FBMS | 0/100 | Weak |
| 383 | Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. GNTY | 0/100 | Weak |
| 384 | HomeStreet, Inc. HMST | 0/100 | Weak |
| 385 | HomeTrust Bancshares, Inc. HTBI | 0/100 | Weak |
| 386 | Old Point Financial Corporation OPOF | 0/100 | Weak |
| 387 | Premier Financial Corp. PFC | 0/100 | Weak |
| 388 | Pacific Premier Bancorp Inc PPBI | 0/100 | Weak |
A deposit franchise is the cheapest and most valuable thing a bank can own.
Lending advantage is the ability to originate loans at attractive spreads without buying that volume with looser credit standards.
Capital is the buffer between loan losses and insolvency, and it is what regulators judge a bank on first.
Banking carries high fixed costs in branches, compliance and technology, so what it costs to run the bank relative to what the bank earns is a genuine competitive variable.
A bank earning everything from net interest income is a leveraged bet on the rate cycle.
Risk management is the defense that only reveals itself late.
HomeStreet, Inc. (HMST) scores 0 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #384 of 393 scored companies in Banks - Regional, the top 98%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 399 companies in Banks - Regional.
HomeStreet, Inc. ranks #384 of 393 scored companies in Banks - Regional by moat score. The widest moat in Banks - Regional is 1st Source Corporation (SRCE) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. (GNTY) at 0 just above it and HomeTrust Bancshares, Inc. (HTBI) at 0 just below it.
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Bank Specialized in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 399 companies in Banks - Regional. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
A bank does not sell a product at a margin. It funds itself, lends at a spread, and books profits that remain an estimate until the loans are actually repaid. That makes the usual margin-and-return questions misleading, so the Bank template scores what really determines a bank's durability: where its funding comes from, what it lends against, how much capital stands behind it, and whether it has been pricing risk honestly.
The Bank Specialized template measures 6 defenses, and HMST scores: Deposit Franchise (not measurable), Lending Advantage (not measurable), Capital Strength (not measurable), Cost Discipline (not measurable), Revenue Diversification (not measurable), Risk Management (not measurable). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.