NSTS vs. CLST, IROQ, FSEA, CFSB, TCBC, BYFC, CPBI, MSVB, FFBW, and HFBL
Should you be buying NSTS Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NSTS Bancorp include Catalyst Bancorp (CLST), IF Bancorp (IROQ), First Seacoast Bancorp (FSEA), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), TC Bancshares (TCBC), Broadway Financial (BYFC), Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Grand Island (CPBI), Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB), FFBW (FFBW), and Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
NSTS Bancorp (NASDAQ:NSTS) and Catalyst Bancorp (NASDAQ:CLST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
Catalyst Bancorp has a net margin of 5.35% compared to NSTS Bancorp's net margin of -60.15%. Catalyst Bancorp's return on equity of -4.95% beat NSTS Bancorp's return on equity.
NSTS Bancorp has a beta of 0.08, indicating that its share price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Catalyst Bancorp has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
23.7% of NSTS Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.1% of Catalyst Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of NSTS Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Catalyst Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NSTS Bancorp and Catalyst Bancorp both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Catalyst Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than NSTS Bancorp. NSTS Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Catalyst Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Catalyst Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than NSTS Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Catalyst Bancorp and 3 mentions for NSTS Bancorp. Catalyst Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat NSTS Bancorp's score of 0.22 indicating that Catalyst Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Catalyst Bancorp beats NSTS Bancorp on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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