NBBK vs. HFWA, GCBC, SMBC, HIFS, BHLB, HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, NECB, and BLFY
Should you be buying NB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NB Bancorp include Heritage Financial (HFWA), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), and Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
NB Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBBK) and Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, dividends and earnings.
NB Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.58%. Heritage Financial has a consensus price target of $22.25, suggesting a potential upside of 16.61%. Given Heritage Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Heritage Financial is more favorable than NB Bancorp.
Heritage Financial has higher revenue and earnings than NB Bancorp.
Heritage Financial has a net margin of 15.70% compared to NB Bancorp's net margin of 0.00%. Heritage Financial's return on equity of 8.18% beat NB Bancorp's return on equity.
Heritage Financial received 332 more outperform votes than NB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.22% of users gave Heritage Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NB Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Heritage Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for NB Bancorp and 2 mentions for Heritage Financial. NB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Heritage Financial's score of 0.47 indicating that NB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.3% of Heritage Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of NB Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Heritage Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Heritage Financial beats NB Bancorp on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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