NYCB vs. MTG, RDN, SMPL, TFSL, WD, WSFS, WAFD, BANC, AGM, and NWBI
Should you be buying New York Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Community Bancorp include MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), TFS Financial (TFSL), Walker & Dunlop (WD), WSFS Financial (WSFS), WaFd (WAFD), Banc of California (BANC), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), and Northwest Bancshares (NWBI). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
MGIC Investment (NYSE:MTG) and New York Community Bancorp (NYSE:NYCB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
MGIC Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than New York Community Bancorp. MGIC Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New York Community Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MGIC Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. New York Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. MGIC Investment pays out 17.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New York Community Bancorp pays out 400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MGIC Investment has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. MGIC Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
MGIC Investment received 124 more outperform votes than New York Community Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.22% of users gave MGIC Investment an outperform vote while only 51.29% of users gave New York Community Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, New York Community Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than MGIC Investment. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for New York Community Bancorp and 6 mentions for MGIC Investment. New York Community Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat MGIC Investment's score of 0.41 indicating that MGIC Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MGIC Investment has a net margin of 62.85% compared to MGIC Investment's net margin of 0.62%. New York Community Bancorp's return on equity of 15.00% beat MGIC Investment's return on equity.
MGIC Investment presently has a consensus target price of $21.83, indicating a potential upside of 3.62%. New York Community Bancorp has a consensus target price of $5.39, indicating a potential upside of 68.53%. Given MGIC Investment's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe New York Community Bancorp is more favorable than MGIC Investment.
95.6% of MGIC Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.9% of New York Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of MGIC Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of New York Community Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MGIC Investment has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Community Bancorp has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MGIC Investment beats New York Community Bancorp on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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