NEWT vs. FISI, FDBC, PFIS, CARE, CBNK, BCAL, FNLC, FLIC, SFST, and GNTY
Should you be buying NewtekOne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NewtekOne include Financial Institutions (FISI), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Carter Bankshares (CARE), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), First Bancorp (FNLC), First of Long Island (FLIC), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), and Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY).
NewtekOne (NASDAQ:NEWT) and Financial Institutions (NASDAQ:FISI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
38.4% of NewtekOne shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Financial Institutions shares are held by institutional investors. 6.4% of NewtekOne shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Financial Institutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NewtekOne presently has a consensus price target of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.89%. Financial Institutions has a consensus price target of $20.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.42%. Given NewtekOne's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe NewtekOne is more favorable than Financial Institutions.
NewtekOne pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Financial Institutions pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. NewtekOne pays out 46.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Financial Institutions pays out 47.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. NewtekOne is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
NewtekOne has a net margin of 15.19% compared to Financial Institutions' net margin of 11.53%. NewtekOne's return on equity of 20.04% beat Financial Institutions' return on equity.
NewtekOne has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Financial Institutions has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Financial Institutions had 10 more articles in the media than NewtekOne. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Financial Institutions and 3 mentions for NewtekOne. NewtekOne's average media sentiment score of -0.10 beat Financial Institutions' score of -0.17 indicating that NewtekOne is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Financial Institutions has higher revenue and earnings than NewtekOne. NewtekOne is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Financial Institutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NewtekOne received 26 more outperform votes than Financial Institutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.30% of users gave NewtekOne an outperform vote while only 58.25% of users gave Financial Institutions an outperform vote.
Summary
NewtekOne beats Financial Institutions on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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