NECB vs. LOB, LX, BY, LC, OPFI, BFC, SUPV, QCRH, DEFT, and CIFR
Should you be buying Northeast Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northeast Community Bancorp include Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), LexinFintech (LX), Byline Bancorp (BY), LendingClub (LC), OppFi (OPFI), Bank First (BFC), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), QCR (QCRH), Defi Technologies (DEFT), and Cipher Mining (CIFR). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Northeast Community Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
Live Oak Bancshares (NASDAQ:LOB) and Northeast Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:NECB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Live Oak Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $42.25, suggesting a potential upside of 51.96%. Given Live Oak Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Live Oak Bancshares is more favorable than Northeast Community Bancorp.
Live Oak Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Northeast Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Live Oak Bancshares pays out 9.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northeast Community Bancorp pays out 22.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Northeast Community Bancorp has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Northeast Community Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Live Oak Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Northeast Community Bancorp. Northeast Community Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Oak Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Live Oak Bancshares has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northeast Community Bancorp has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northeast Community Bancorp has a net margin of 29.36% compared to Live Oak Bancshares' net margin of 7.10%. Northeast Community Bancorp's return on equity of 15.96% beat Live Oak Bancshares' return on equity.
Live Oak Bancshares received 182 more outperform votes than Northeast Community Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.36% of users gave Northeast Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.75% of users gave Live Oak Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Live Oak Bancshares and Live Oak Bancshares both had 1 articles in the media. Northeast Community Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Live Oak Bancshares' score of 0.92 indicating that Northeast Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
64.0% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Live Oak Bancshares beats Northeast Community Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NECB) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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