BCBP vs. NBBK, BITF, CFB, BFST, IBCP, HBT, ORRF, ESQ, MCB, and PGY
Should you be buying BCB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BCB Bancorp include NB Bancorp (NBBK), Bitfarms (BITF), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), Business First Bancshares (BFST), Independent Bank (IBCP), HBT Financial (HBT), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), Esquire Financial (ESQ), Metropolitan Bank (MCB), and Pagaya Technologies (PGY). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
BCB Bancorp vs.
NB Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBBK) and BCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCBP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.
36.0% of BCB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of NB Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.7% of BCB Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BCB Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NB Bancorp.
BCB Bancorp received 138 more outperform votes than NB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.75% of users gave BCB Bancorp an outperform vote.
NB Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.86%. BCB Bancorp has a consensus target price of $13.75, suggesting a potential upside of 18.43%. Given NB Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe NB Bancorp is more favorable than BCB Bancorp.
In the previous week, BCB Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than NB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for BCB Bancorp and 3 mentions for NB Bancorp. NB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat BCB Bancorp's score of 0.50 indicating that NB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BCB Bancorp has a net margin of 10.59% compared to NB Bancorp's net margin of 4.47%. BCB Bancorp's return on equity of 7.31% beat NB Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
BCB Bancorp beats NB Bancorp on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BCBP) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
