PVBC vs. NBBK, HFWA, GCBC, SMBC, HIFS, HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, NECB, and BLFY
Should you be buying Provident Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Provident Bancorp include NB Bancorp (NBBK), 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), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), and Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
NB Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBBK) and Provident Bancorp (NASDAQ:PVBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
NB Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.18%. Provident Bancorp has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.25%. Given Provident Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe NB Bancorp is more favorable than Provident Bancorp.
Provident Bancorp has a net margin of 14.09% compared to Provident Bancorp's net margin of 0.00%. NB Bancorp's return on equity of 6.27% beat Provident Bancorp's return on equity.
Provident Bancorp received 98 more outperform votes than NB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.80% of users gave Provident Bancorp an outperform vote.
Provident Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NB Bancorp.
In the previous week, NB Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Provident Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for NB Bancorp and 2 mentions for Provident Bancorp. Provident Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat NB Bancorp's score of 0.43 indicating that NB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
74.6% of Provident Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of NB Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Provident Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
NB Bancorp beats Provident Bancorp on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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