NWBI vs. OCFC, DCOM, BANC, WAFD, WSFS, FCF, CASH, NBHC, CHCO, and WABC
Should you be buying Northwest Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Bancshares include OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Banc of California (BANC), WaFd (WAFD), WSFS Financial (WSFS), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Pathward Financial (CASH), National Bank (NBHC), City (CHCO), and Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) and OceanFirst Financial (NASDAQ:OCFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OceanFirst Financial has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of OceanFirst Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of OceanFirst Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northwest Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.51%. OceanFirst Financial has a consensus price target of $18.20, suggesting a potential upside of 13.18%. Given OceanFirst Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe OceanFirst Financial is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. OceanFirst Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Northwest Bancshares pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. OceanFirst Financial pays out 46.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
OceanFirst Financial received 4 more outperform votes than Northwest Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.68% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 56.28% of users gave OceanFirst Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Northwest Bancshares had 5 more articles in the media than OceanFirst Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Northwest Bancshares and 0 mentions for OceanFirst Financial. Northwest Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat OceanFirst Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Northwest Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Northwest Bancshares has a net margin of 17.84% compared to OceanFirst Financial's net margin of 15.54%. Northwest Bancshares' return on equity of 8.77% beat OceanFirst Financial's return on equity.
Northwest Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than OceanFirst Financial. OceanFirst Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northwest Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Northwest Bancshares beats OceanFirst Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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