GCBC vs. NIC, CUBI, NTB, TFIN, CLBK, LOB, LC, VBTX, SUPV, and LX
Should you be buying Greene County Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greene County Bancorp include Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), LendingClub (LC), Veritex (VBTX), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), and LexinFintech (LX). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Greene County Bancorp vs.
Greene County Bancorp (NASDAQ:GCBC) and Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus target price of $119.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.62%. Given Nicolet Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nicolet Bankshares is more favorable than Greene County Bancorp.
Nicolet Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Greene County Bancorp. Nicolet Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greene County Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
13.4% of Greene County Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Greene County Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 1 more articles in the media than Greene County Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 1 mentions for Greene County Bancorp. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Greene County Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greene County Bancorp has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Greene County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Greene County Bancorp pays out 23.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 13.9% 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. Greene County Bancorp has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Greene County Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 23.83% compared to Greene County Bancorp's net margin of 21.02%. Greene County Bancorp's return on equity of 12.55% beat Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity.
Greene County Bancorp received 119 more outperform votes than Nicolet Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.69% of users gave Greene County Bancorp an outperform vote while only 11.54% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Summary
Nicolet Bankshares beats Greene County Bancorp on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GCBC) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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