AFBI vs. ECBK, WMPN, FNWB, BSBK, SRBK, RBKB, CULL, PVBC, ESSA, and TCBS
Should you be buying Affinity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Affinity Bancshares include ECB Bancorp (ECBK), William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN), First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB), Bogota Financial (BSBK), SR Bancorp (SRBK), Rhinebeck Bancorp (RBKB), Cullman Bancorp (CULL), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), and Texas Community Bancshares (TCBS). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
ECB Bancorp (NASDAQ:ECBK) and Affinity Bancshares (NASDAQ:AFBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
ECB Bancorp has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Affinity Bancshares has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Affinity Bancshares has a net margin of 12.98% compared to Affinity Bancshares' net margin of 7.01%. ECB Bancorp's return on equity of 5.08% beat Affinity Bancshares' return on equity.
ECB Bancorp and Affinity Bancshares both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Affinity Bancshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ECB Bancorp. Affinity Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ECB Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
30.3% of ECB Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.3% of Affinity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of ECB Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Affinity Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, ECB Bancorp had 9 more articles in the media than Affinity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for ECB Bancorp and 2 mentions for Affinity Bancshares. ECB Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Affinity Bancshares' score of 0.09 indicating that Affinity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Affinity Bancshares beats ECB Bancorp on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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