WAFD vs. NWBI, BANC, WSFS, OCFC, DCOM, TRMK, NBTB, TBBK, WSBC, and FRME
Should you be buying WaFd stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WaFd include Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Banc of California (BANC), WSFS Financial (WSFS), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Trustmark (TRMK), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Bancorp (TBBK), WesBanco (WSBC), and First Merchants (FRME). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) and WaFd (NASDAQ:WAFD) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends and valuation.
Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. WaFd pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. 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. WaFd pays out 39.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. WaFd has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WaFd has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of WaFd shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of WaFd shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, WaFd had 18 more articles in the media than Northwest Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for WaFd and 5 mentions for Northwest Bancshares. WaFd's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of 0.40 indicating that Northwest Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Northwest Bancshares has a net margin of 17.84% compared to Northwest Bancshares' net margin of 15.33%. Northwest Bancshares' return on equity of 10.02% beat WaFd's return on equity.
WaFd has higher revenue and earnings than Northwest Bancshares. Northwest Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WaFd, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Northwest Bancshares received 59 more outperform votes than WaFd when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.68% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 49.43% of users gave WaFd an outperform vote.
Northwest Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.51%. WaFd has a consensus price target of $34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.18%. Given Northwest Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WaFd is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
Summary
WaFd beats Northwest Bancshares on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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