NWBI vs. WAFD, OCFC, DCOM, BANC, WSFS, FCF, HOPE, NBHC, CASH, and WABC
Should you be buying Northwest Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Bancshares include WaFd (WAFD), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Banc of California (BANC), WSFS Financial (WSFS), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), National Bank (NBHC), Pathward Financial (CASH), and Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC).
Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) and WaFd (NASDAQ:WAFD) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. WaFd pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Northwest Bancshares pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. WaFd pays out 39.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Northwest Bancshares had 7 more articles in the media than WaFd. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Northwest Bancshares and 21 mentions for WaFd. Northwest Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat WaFd's score of -0.01 indicating that Northwest Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WaFd has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of WaFd shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of WaFd shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Northwest Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.66%. WaFd has a consensus price target of $34.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.82%. Given WaFd's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WaFd is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
WaFd has higher revenue and earnings than Northwest Bancshares. Northwest Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WaFd, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Northwest Bancshares has a net margin of 17.84% compared to WaFd's net margin of 15.33%. WaFd's return on equity of 10.02% beat Northwest Bancshares' return on equity.
Northwest Bancshares received 59 more outperform votes than WaFd when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.68% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 49.43% of users gave WaFd an outperform vote.
Summary
WaFd beats Northwest Bancshares on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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