NBBK vs. BHLB, HFWA, GCBC, SMBC, HIFS, HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, NECB, and BLFY
Should you be buying NB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NB Bancorp include Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Heritage Financial (HFWA), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), and Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
NB Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBBK) and Berkshire Hills Bancorp (NYSE:BHLB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp has a net margin of 3.40% compared to NB Bancorp's net margin of 0.00%. Berkshire Hills Bancorp's return on equity of 8.77% beat NB Bancorp's return on equity.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp received 267 more outperform votes than NB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.28% of users gave Berkshire Hills Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NB Bancorp and NB Bancorp both had 2 articles in the media. NB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Berkshire Hills Bancorp's score of -0.45 indicating that NB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NB Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.29%. Berkshire Hills Bancorp has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.48%. Given Berkshire Hills Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Berkshire Hills Bancorp is more favorable than NB Bancorp.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than NB Bancorp.
83.1% of Berkshire Hills Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of NB Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Berkshire Hills Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Berkshire Hills Bancorp beats NB Bancorp on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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