BLFY vs. NECB, TSBK, FSBW, TCBX, BSRR, ESSA, CZNC, FRST, PVBC, and HBCP
Should you be buying Blue Foundry Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Foundry Bancorp include Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), Sierra Bancorp (BSRR), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Primis Financial (FRST), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), and Home Bancorp (HBCP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) and Northeast Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:NECB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Blue Foundry Bancorp has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northeast Community Bancorp has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northeast Community Bancorp received 83 more outperform votes than Blue Foundry Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.36% of users gave Northeast Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Blue Foundry Bancorp an outperform vote.
Northeast Community Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Foundry Bancorp. Blue Foundry Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northeast Community Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blue Foundry Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential upside of 12.18%. Northeast Community Bancorp has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential downside of 4.64%. Given Blue Foundry Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Blue Foundry Bancorp is more favorable than Northeast Community Bancorp.
In the previous week, Northeast Community Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Blue Foundry Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Northeast Community Bancorp and 2 mentions for Blue Foundry Bancorp. Northeast Community Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Blue Foundry Bancorp's score of 0.43 indicating that Northeast Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Northeast Community Bancorp has a net margin of 33.97% compared to Blue Foundry Bancorp's net margin of -9.14%. Northeast Community Bancorp's return on equity of 17.26% beat Blue Foundry Bancorp's return on equity.
56.5% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Northeast Community Bancorp beats Blue Foundry Bancorp on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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