NECB vs. QCRH, CMPO, BY, CCB, FBMS, OBK, SII, FSUN, AMAL, and OBNK
Should you be buying Northeast Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northeast Community Bancorp include QCR (QCRH), CompoSecure (CMPO), Byline Bancorp (BY), Coastal Financial (CCB), First Bancshares (FBMS), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Sprott (SII), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), and Origin Bancorp (OBNK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Northeast Community Bancorp vs.
QCR (NASDAQ:QCRH) and Northeast Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:NECB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
QCR pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Northeast Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. QCR pays out 3.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northeast Community Bancorp pays out 16.7% 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.
QCR received 210 more outperform votes than Northeast Community Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.70% of users gave QCR an outperform vote while only 63.36% of users gave Northeast Community Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, QCR had 2 more articles in the media than Northeast Community Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for QCR and 4 mentions for Northeast Community Bancorp. Northeast Community Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat QCR's score of 0.62 indicating that Northeast Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
QCR has higher revenue and earnings than Northeast Community Bancorp. Northeast Community Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QCR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
QCR presently has a consensus price target of $76.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.82%. Given QCR's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe QCR is more favorable than Northeast Community Bancorp.
70.0% of QCR shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of QCR shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Northeast Community Bancorp has a net margin of 30.47% compared to QCR's net margin of 19.25%. Northeast Community Bancorp's return on equity of 16.63% beat QCR's return on equity.
QCR has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northeast Community Bancorp has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
QCR beats Northeast Community Bancorp on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NECB) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
