NEWT vs. QCRH, DEFT, CIFR, FBMS, OBNK, OBK, PFC, FSUN, ML, and TRIN
Should you be buying NewtekOne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NewtekOne include QCR (QCRH), Defi Technologies (DEFT), Cipher Mining (CIFR), First Bancshares (FBMS), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Premier Financial (PFC), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), MoneyLion (ML), and Trinity Capital (TRIN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
NewtekOne vs. Its Competitors
QCR (NASDAQ:QCRH) and NewtekOne (NASDAQ:NEWT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
70.0% of QCR shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of NewtekOne shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of QCR shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of NewtekOne shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
QCR has a net margin of 19.06% compared to NewtekOne's net margin of 14.92%. NewtekOne's return on equity of 18.73% beat QCR's return on equity.
QCR presently has a consensus target price of $85.33, suggesting a potential upside of 29.61%. NewtekOne has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.93%. Given QCR's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe QCR is more favorable than NewtekOne.
In the previous week, NewtekOne had 1 more articles in the media than QCR. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for NewtekOne and 2 mentions for QCR. QCR's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat NewtekOne's score of 0.71 indicating that QCR is being referred to more favorably in the media.
QCR has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NewtekOne has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NewtekOne received 23 more outperform votes than QCR when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.49% of users gave QCR an outperform vote while only 59.51% of users gave NewtekOne an outperform vote.
QCR pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. NewtekOne pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. QCR pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NewtekOne pays out 39.6% 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. NewtekOne has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. NewtekOne is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
QCR has higher revenue and earnings than NewtekOne. NewtekOne is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QCR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
QCR beats NewtekOne on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NEWT) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
