BHB vs. NIC, CUBI, HUT, PWP, BTDR, CLBK, LX, IREN, MBIN, and SII
Should you be buying Bar Harbor Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bar Harbor Bankshares include Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Hut 8 (HUT), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), Columbia Financial (CLBK), LexinFintech (LX), Iris Energy (IREN), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), and Sprott (SII). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Bar Harbor Bankshares vs.
Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) and Bar Harbor Bankshares (NYSE:BHB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Nicolet Bankshares currently has a consensus price target of $119.25, suggesting a potential downside of 2.87%. Given Nicolet Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nicolet Bankshares is more favorable than Bar Harbor Bankshares.
Nicolet Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Bar Harbor Bankshares. Bar Harbor Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nicolet Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 4 more articles in the media than Bar Harbor Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 3 mentions for Bar Harbor Bankshares. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Bar Harbor Bankshares' score of 0.20 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Bar Harbor Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bar Harbor Bankshares pays out 44.9% 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. Nicolet Bankshares has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Bar Harbor Bankshares has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years. Bar Harbor Bankshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bar Harbor Bankshares has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nicolet Bankshares received 3 more outperform votes than Bar Harbor Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 10.71% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Bar Harbor Bankshares an outperform vote.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 23.83% compared to Bar Harbor Bankshares' net margin of 0.00%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 10.95% beat Bar Harbor Bankshares' return on equity.
43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.5% of Bar Harbor Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Bar Harbor Bankshares shares are held 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.
Summary
Nicolet Bankshares beats Bar Harbor Bankshares on 18 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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