BCB Bancorp (BCBP) Competitors

Equity Bancshares (NASDAQ:EQBK) and BCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCBP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

Is EQBK or BCBP a better dividend stock?

Equity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. BCB Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Equity Bancshares pays out 15.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BCB Bancorp pays out 65.3% 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in EQBK or BCBP?

Equity Bancshares received 1 more outperform votes than BCB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.26% of users gave BCB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 48.14% of users gave Equity Bancshares an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Equity Bancshares	Outperform Votes 142 48.14%	Underperform Votes 153 51.86%
BCB Bancorp	Outperform Votes 141 58.26%	Underperform Votes 101 41.74%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of EQBK or BCBP?

71.8% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.0% of BCB Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of BCB Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer EQBK or BCBP?

Equity Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $46.60, indicating a potential upside of 28.09%. BCB Bancorp has a consensus target price of $13.38, indicating a potential upside of 41.38%. Given BCB Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BCB Bancorp is more favorable than Equity Bancshares.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Equity Bancshares	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
BCB Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has higher valuation & earnings, EQBK or BCBP?

Equity Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than BCB Bancorp. Equity Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BCB Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Equity Bancshares	$225.03M	2.83	$62.62M	$3.93	9.26
BCB Bancorp	$94.96M	1.71	$18.62M	$0.98	9.65

Which has more risk and volatility, EQBK or BCBP?

Equity Bancshares has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BCB Bancorp has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is EQBK or BCBP more profitable?

Equity Bancshares has a net margin of 18.66% compared to BCB Bancorp's net margin of 9.46%. Equity Bancshares' return on equity of 14.64% beat BCB Bancorp's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Equity Bancshares	18.66%	14.64%	1.31%
BCB Bancorp	9.46%	6.33%	0.50%

Does the media favor EQBK or BCBP?

In the previous week, Equity Bancshares had 19 more articles in the media than BCB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Equity Bancshares and 3 mentions for BCB Bancorp. Equity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat BCB Bancorp's score of -0.21 indicating that Equity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Equity Bancshares	10 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
BCB Bancorp	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Equity Bancshares beats BCB Bancorp on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.