NECB vs. BLFY, TSBK, FSBW, TCBX, ESSA, HBCP, PVBC, ECBK, WMPN, and AFBI
Should you be buying Northeast Community Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northeast Community Bancorp include Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Timberland Bancorp (TSBK), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), ESSA Bancorp (ESSA), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Provident Bancorp (PVBC), ECB Bancorp (ECBK), William Penn Bancorporation (WMPN), and Affinity Bancshares (AFBI). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
Blue Foundry Bancorp (NASDAQ:BLFY) and Northeast Community Bancorp (NASDAQ:NECB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Blue Foundry Bancorp has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northeast Community Bancorp has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Blue Foundry Bancorp had 12 more articles in the media than Northeast Community Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Blue Foundry Bancorp and 3 mentions for Northeast Community Bancorp. Blue Foundry Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Northeast Community Bancorp's score of -0.34 indicating that Northeast Community Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Northeast Community Bancorp has a net margin of 31.94% compared to Northeast Community Bancorp's net margin of -10.89%. Blue Foundry Bancorp's return on equity of 16.95% beat Northeast Community Bancorp's return on equity.
56.5% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.3% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Blue Foundry Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Northeast Community Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Foundry Bancorp. Blue Foundry Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northeast Community Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blue Foundry Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.20%. Northeast Community Bancorp has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.54%. Given Northeast Community Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Blue Foundry Bancorp is more favorable than Northeast Community Bancorp.
Northeast Community Bancorp received 83 more outperform votes than Blue Foundry Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.36% of users gave Northeast Community Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Blue Foundry Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Northeast Community Bancorp beats Blue Foundry Bancorp on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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