FNWB vs. WEBK, PBIP, HIFS, HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, NECB, BLFY, TSBK, and ESSA
Should you be buying First Northwest Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Northwest Bancorp include Wellesley Bancorp (WEBK), Prudential Bancorp (PBIP), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), and ESSA Bancorp (ESSA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Wellesley Bancorp (NASDAQ:WEBK) and First Northwest Bancorp (NASDAQ:FNWB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
Wellesley Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than First Northwest Bancorp.
Wellesley Bancorp has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Northwest Bancorp has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wellesley Bancorp has a net margin of 14.04% compared to Wellesley Bancorp's net margin of -0.78%. First Northwest Bancorp's return on equity of 8.60% beat Wellesley Bancorp's return on equity.
First Northwest Bancorp has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.40%. Given Wellesley Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe First Northwest Bancorp is more favorable than Wellesley Bancorp.
In the previous week, First Northwest Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Wellesley Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for First Northwest Bancorp and 1 mentions for Wellesley Bancorp. Wellesley Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat First Northwest Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that First Northwest Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
24.7% of Wellesley Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of First Northwest Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.4% of Wellesley Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of First Northwest Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
First Northwest Bancorp received 124 more outperform votes than Wellesley Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.83% of users gave Wellesley Bancorp an outperform vote while only 67.38% of users gave First Northwest Bancorp an outperform vote.
Wellesley Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. First Northwest Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. First Northwest Bancorp pays out -280.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Wellesley Bancorp beats First Northwest Bancorp on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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