NBBK vs. HFWA, GCBC, SMBC, HIFS, HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, BHLB, NECB, and TSBK
Should you be buying NB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NB Bancorp include Heritage Financial (HFWA), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), and Timberland Bancorp (TSBK). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
NB Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBBK) and Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Heritage Financial had 6 more articles in the media than NB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Heritage Financial and 11 mentions for NB Bancorp. NB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Heritage Financial's score of 0.23 indicating that NB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Heritage Financial received 332 more outperform votes than NB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.22% of users gave Heritage Financial an outperform vote.
Heritage Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NB Bancorp.
NB Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.44%. Heritage Financial has a consensus price target of $22.25, indicating a potential upside of 21.85%. Given Heritage Financial's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Heritage Financial is more favorable than NB Bancorp.
Heritage Financial has a net margin of 15.70% compared to NB Bancorp's net margin of 0.00%. Heritage Financial's return on equity of 8.18% beat NB Bancorp's return on equity.
78.3% of Heritage Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of NB Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Heritage Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Heritage Financial beats NB Bancorp on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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