GCBC vs. LOB, CASH, INTR, NTB, CLBK, MBIN, NIC, CUBI, QCRH, and CMPO
Should you be buying Greene County Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greene County Bancorp include Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Pathward Financial (CASH), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), QCR (QCRH), and CompoSecure (CMPO). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Greene County Bancorp vs.
Live Oak Bancshares (NASDAQ:LOB) and Greene County Bancorp (NASDAQ:GCBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Live Oak Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $45.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.24%. Given Live Oak Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Live Oak Bancshares is more favorable than Greene County Bancorp.
Greene County Bancorp has a net margin of 20.28% compared to Live Oak Bancshares' net margin of 7.99%. Greene County Bancorp's return on equity of 12.03% beat Live Oak Bancshares' return on equity.
Live Oak Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Greene County Bancorp. Greene County Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Oak Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Live Oak Bancshares has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greene County Bancorp has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Live Oak Bancshares received 143 more outperform votes than Greene County Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.19% of users gave Live Oak Bancshares an outperform vote while only 52.59% of users gave Greene County Bancorp an outperform vote.
Live Oak Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Greene County Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Live Oak Bancshares pays out 7.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greene County Bancorp pays out 24.8% 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.
64.0% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of Greene County Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.9% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Greene County Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Greene County Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Live Oak Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Greene County Bancorp and 1 mentions for Live Oak Bancshares. Greene County Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Live Oak Bancshares' score of 0.84 indicating that Greene County Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Live Oak Bancshares beats Greene County Bancorp on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GCBC) was last updated on 12/19/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
