AFBI vs. ECBK, WMPN, FNWB, BSBK, SRBK, RBKB, CULL, PVBC, ESSA, and TCBS
Should you be buying Affinity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Affinity Bancshares include ECB Bancorp (ECBK), William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN), First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB), Bogota Financial (BSBK), SR Bancorp (SRBK), Rhinebeck Bancorp (RBKB), Cullman Bancorp (CULL), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), and Texas Community Bancshares (TCBS). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
Affinity Bancshares (NASDAQ:AFBI) and ECB Bancorp (NASDAQ:ECBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
In the previous week, ECB Bancorp had 9 more articles in the media than Affinity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for ECB Bancorp and 2 mentions for Affinity Bancshares. Affinity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat ECB Bancorp's score of 0.03 indicating that Affinity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Affinity Bancshares and ECB Bancorp both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Affinity Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECB Bancorp. Affinity Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ECB Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Affinity Bancshares has a net margin of 12.98% compared to ECB Bancorp's net margin of 7.01%. Affinity Bancshares' return on equity of 5.08% beat ECB Bancorp's return on equity.
Affinity Bancshares has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECB Bancorp has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
39.3% of Affinity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.3% of ECB Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of Affinity Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of ECB Bancorp shares are held by 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.
Summary
Affinity Bancshares beats ECB Bancorp on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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