NYCB vs. AIZ, BRX, SF, PRI, OHI, WF, RLI, ADC, FSV, and HLI
Should you be buying New York Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Community Bancorp include Assurant (AIZ), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), Stifel Financial (SF), Primerica (PRI), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Woori Financial Group (WF), RLI (RLI), Agree Realty (ADC), FirstService (FSV), and Houlihan Lokey (HLI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
New York Community Bancorp vs.
Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) and New York Community Bancorp (NYSE:NYCB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
Assurant has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Community Bancorp has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New York Community Bancorp received 80 more outperform votes than Assurant when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.29% of users gave Assurant an outperform vote while only 54.76% of users gave New York Community Bancorp an outperform vote.
Assurant currently has a consensus target price of $130.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.98%. New York Community Bancorp has a consensus target price of $10.71, indicating a potential upside of 17.16%. Given New York Community Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe New York Community Bancorp is more favorable than Assurant.
New York Community Bancorp has a net margin of 27.79% compared to Assurant's net margin of 2.68%. Assurant's return on equity of 13.52% beat New York Community Bancorp's return on equity.
New York Community Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Assurant. New York Community Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Assurant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assurant pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. New York Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Assurant pays out 56.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New York Community Bancorp pays out 54.4% 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. Assurant has increased its dividend for 18 consecutive years. New York Community Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, New York Community Bancorp had 21 more articles in the media than Assurant. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for New York Community Bancorp and 3 mentions for Assurant. Assurant's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat New York Community Bancorp's score of 0.23 indicating that Assurant is being referred to more favorably in the media.
95.9% of Assurant shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of New York Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Assurant shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of New York Community Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
New York Community Bancorp beats Assurant on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding NYCB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
New York Community Bancorp Competitors List
