NWBI vs. NBHC, CHCO, WABC, HOPE, NBTB, MTG, RDN, SMPL, TFSL, and WD
Should you be buying Northwest Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Bancshares include National Bank (NBHC), City (CHCO), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), TFS Financial (TFSL), and Walker & Dunlop (WD).
Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) and National Bank (NYSE:NBHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Northwest Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.27%. National Bank has a consensus target price of $38.63, indicating a potential upside of 4.34%. Given National Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe National Bank is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
National Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Northwest Bancshares. National Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northwest Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Bank has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Northwest Bancshares and Northwest Bancshares both had 4 articles in the media. Northwest Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat National Bank's score of 0.64 indicating that Northwest Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of National Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of National Bank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Northwest Bancshares received 40 more outperform votes than National Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.68% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 55.32% of users gave National Bank an outperform vote.
National Bank has a net margin of 22.94% compared to Northwest Bancshares' net margin of 17.84%. National Bank's return on equity of 11.20% beat Northwest Bancshares' return on equity.
Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. National Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Northwest Bancshares pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Bank pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
National Bank beats Northwest Bancshares on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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