ECBK vs. WMPN, AFBI, FNWB, BSBK, SRBK, PVBC, RBKB, CULL, ESSA, and TCBS
Should you be buying ECB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECB Bancorp include William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN), Affinity Bancshares (AFBI), First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB), Bogota Financial (BSBK), SR Bancorp (SRBK), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), Rhinebeck Bancorp (RBKB), Cullman Bancorp (CULL), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), and Texas Community Bancshares (TCBS). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
ECB Bancorp (NASDAQ:ECBK) and William Penn Bancorporation (NASDAQ:WMPN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
William Penn Bancorporation has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.18%. Given William Penn Bancorporation's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe William Penn Bancorporation is more favorable than ECB Bancorp.
ECB Bancorp has a net margin of 7.98% compared to William Penn Bancorporation's net margin of 2.44%. ECB Bancorp's return on equity of 2.71% beat William Penn Bancorporation's return on equity.
ECB Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than William Penn Bancorporation. ECB Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than William Penn Bancorporation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ECB Bancorp has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, William Penn Bancorporation has a beta of -0.02, suggesting that its stock price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.
William Penn Bancorporation received 3 more outperform votes than ECB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users.
30.3% of ECB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.2% of William Penn Bancorporation shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of ECB Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of William Penn Bancorporation shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, ECB Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than William Penn Bancorporation. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ECB Bancorp and 0 mentions for William Penn Bancorporation. ECB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat William Penn Bancorporation's score of -0.70 indicating that ECB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ECB Bancorp beats William Penn Bancorporation on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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