NWBI vs. WAFD, OCFC, DCOM, BANC, WSFS, FCF, CASH, WABC, NBHC, and HOPE
Should you be buying Northwest Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Bancshares include WaFd (WAFD), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Banc of California (BANC), WSFS Financial (WSFS), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Pathward Financial (CASH), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), National Bank (NBHC), and Hope Bancorp (HOPE). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
WaFd (NASDAQ:WAFD) and Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
In the previous week, WaFd had 6 more articles in the media than Northwest Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for WaFd and 4 mentions for Northwest Bancshares. WaFd's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of 0.31 indicating that Northwest Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
83.7% of WaFd shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of WaFd shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
WaFd pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. WaFd pays out 39.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. WaFd has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Northwest Bancshares has a net margin of 17.84% compared to Northwest Bancshares' net margin of 15.33%. Northwest Bancshares' return on equity of 10.02% beat WaFd's return on equity.
WaFd has higher revenue and earnings than Northwest Bancshares. WaFd is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northwest Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WaFd currently has a consensus target price of $34.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.47%. Northwest Bancshares has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.40%. Given Northwest Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WaFd is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
WaFd has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northwest Bancshares received 59 more outperform votes than WaFd when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.68% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 49.43% of users gave WaFd an outperform vote.
Summary
WaFd beats Northwest Bancshares on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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