Northern Lights Acquisition (NLIT) Competitors

Provident Bancorp (NASDAQ:PVBC) and Northern Lights Acquisition (NASDAQ:NLIT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Do analysts prefer PVBC or NLIT?

Provident Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $12.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.32%. Given Provident Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Provident Bancorp is more favorable than Northern Lights Acquisition.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Provident Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Northern Lights Acquisition	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of PVBC or NLIT?

74.6% of Provident Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Northern Lights Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Provident Bancorp shares are owned by 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.

Does the media favor PVBC or NLIT?

In the previous week, Provident Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Northern Lights Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Provident Bancorp and 0 mentions for Northern Lights Acquisition. Provident Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Northern Lights Acquisition'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Provident Bancorp	Neutral
Northern Lights Acquisition	Neutral

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, PVBC or NLIT?

Provident Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Northern Lights Acquisition.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Provident Bancorp	$95.37M	2.32	$7.27M	$0.63	19.78
Northern Lights Acquisition	N/A	N/A	$1.25M	N/A	N/A

Is PVBC or NLIT more profitable?

Provident Bancorp has a net margin of 11.26% compared to Northern Lights Acquisition's net margin of 0.00%. Northern Lights Acquisition's return on equity of 69.39% beat Provident Bancorp's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Provident Bancorp	11.26%	4.56%	0.67%
Northern Lights Acquisition	N/A	69.39%	1.65%

Summary

Provident Bancorp beats Northern Lights Acquisition on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.