BCBP vs. SMBK, YRD, CBNK, ALRS, HKD, MPB, BITF, QD, BTBT, and HONE
Should you be buying BCB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BCB Bancorp include SmartFinancial (SMBK), Yiren Digital (YRD), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Alerus Financial (ALRS), AMTD Digital (HKD), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), Bitfarms (BITF), Qudian (QD), Bit Digital (BTBT), and HarborOne Bancorp (HONE). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
BCB Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and BCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCBP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
SmartFinancial currently has a consensus price target of $33.70, suggesting a potential upside of 4.43%. BCB Bancorp has a consensus price target of $11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 50.45%. Given BCB Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BCB Bancorp is more favorable than SmartFinancial.
SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. BCB Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. SmartFinancial pays out 14.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BCB Bancorp pays out 426.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SmartFinancial has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, SmartFinancial and SmartFinancial both had 2 articles in the media. SmartFinancial's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat BCB Bancorp's score of 0.52 indicating that SmartFinancial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.0% of BCB Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of SmartFinancial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of BCB Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SmartFinancial has higher revenue and earnings than BCB Bancorp. SmartFinancial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BCB Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartFinancial has a net margin of 12.67% compared to BCB Bancorp's net margin of 9.46%. SmartFinancial's return on equity of 7.33% beat BCB Bancorp's return on equity.
SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BCB Bancorp has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SmartFinancial received 52 more outperform votes than BCB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.02% of users gave BCB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.96% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote.
Summary
SmartFinancial beats BCB Bancorp on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:BCBP) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
