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Western New England Bancorp (WNEB) Competitors

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$9.09 +0.04 (+0.44%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

WNEB vs. BITF, CFB, BFST, IBCP, HBT, ORRF, ESQ, MCB, PGY, and EQBK

Should you be buying Western New England Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western New England Bancorp include Bitfarms (BITF), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), Business First Bancshares (BFST), Independent Bank (IBCP), HBT Financial (HBT), Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF), Esquire Financial (ESQ), Metropolitan Bank (MCB), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), and Equity Bancshares (EQBK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Western New England Bancorp vs.

Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF) and Western New England Bancorp (NASDAQ:WNEB) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.

Bitfarms has a beta of 3.67, indicating that its stock price is 267% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western New England Bancorp has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Bitfarms presently has a consensus target price of $4.05, suggesting a potential upside of 141.07%. Western New England Bancorp has a consensus target price of $8.50, suggesting a potential downside of 6.49%. Given Bitfarms' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bitfarms is more favorable than Western New England Bancorp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bitfarms
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
Western New England Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

20.6% of Bitfarms shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of Western New England Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of Bitfarms shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Western New England Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Western New England Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bitfarms. Bitfarms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Western New England Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bitfarms$146.37M5.20-$104.04M-$0.36-4.67
Western New England Bancorp$112.01M1.71$15.07M$0.5217.48

Western New England Bancorp received 259 more outperform votes than Bitfarms when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.17% of users gave Bitfarms an outperform vote while only 58.70% of users gave Western New England Bancorp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BitfarmsOutperform Votes
38
79.17%
Underperform Votes
10
20.83%
Western New England BancorpOutperform Votes
297
58.70%
Underperform Votes
209
41.30%

Western New England Bancorp has a net margin of 9.05% compared to Bitfarms' net margin of -69.08%. Western New England Bancorp's return on equity of 4.58% beat Bitfarms' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bitfarms-69.08% -22.17% -18.93%
Western New England Bancorp 9.05%4.58%0.42%

In the previous week, Bitfarms had 5 more articles in the media than Western New England Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Bitfarms and 2 mentions for Western New England Bancorp. Western New England Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Bitfarms' score of 0.82 indicating that Western New England Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Bitfarms
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Western New England Bancorp
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Bitfarms and Western New England Bancorp tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WNEB vs. The Competition

MetricWestern New England BancorpFederal savings institutions IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$191.07M$2.82B$11.78B$9.14B
Dividend Yield3.27%3.31%6.02%4.02%
P/E Ratio17.4814.9325.2417.36
Price / Sales1.712.4428.3677.11
Price / Cash9.2818.3717.2635.97
Price / Book0.830.922.654.79
Net Income$15.07M$358.98M$1.04B$225.00M
7 Day Performance4.72%0.97%1.94%2.37%
1 Month Performance-1.84%-0.26%0.90%4.40%
1 Year Performance2.36%9.49%14.70%20.10%

Western New England Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WNEB
Western New England Bancorp
3.7088 of 5 stars
$9.09
+0.4%
$8.50
-6.5%
+2.4%$191.06M$112.01M17.48360Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
BITF
Bitfarms
2.237 of 5 stars
$1.56
-3.1%
$4.05
+159.6%
-19.6%$706.58M$182.96M-4.33110Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
CFB
CrossFirst Bankshares
3.8077 of 5 stars
$14.23
+0.9%
$19.33
+35.9%
+15.8%$701.75M$254.34M9.68460Upcoming Earnings
BFST
Business First Bancshares
3.6402 of 5 stars
$23.50
+0.7%
$29.17
+24.1%
+11.8%$694.21M$254.16M10.13750Positive News
IBCP
Independent Bank
3.3287 of 5 stars
$32.85
+0.3%
$34.83
+6.0%
+33.5%$686.37M$203.04M11.17920Upcoming Earnings
HBT
HBT Financial
3.0573 of 5 stars
$21.21
+2.2%
$24.40
+15.0%
+10.4%$669.37M$219.85M9.64730Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
ORRF
Orrstown Financial Services
4.4504 of 5 stars
$34.11
+0.4%
$37.25
+9.2%
+29.1%$661.26M$161.57M18.34430Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
ESQ
Esquire Financial
1.9163 of 5 stars
$78.87
+0.9%
$71.67
-9.1%
+78.7%$656.28M$120.71M15.87110Upcoming Earnings
MCB
Metropolitan Bank
3.4153 of 5 stars
$57.53
+2.1%
$74.25
+29.1%
+32.7%$644.22M$269.46M10.81240Upcoming Earnings
PGY
Pagaya Technologies
3.4668 of 5 stars
$8.60
-1.9%
$20.00
+132.6%
-32.3%$633.44M$939.31M-3.39800Gap Up
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
2.3617 of 5 stars
$40.65
+2.1%
$44.75
+10.1%
+32.6%$621.54M$153.70M36.95700Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NASDAQ:WNEB) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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