SBT vs. NRIM, WSBF, FMAO, CVLY, PDLB, BCBP, KRNY, WNEB, FGBI, and BVFL
Should you be buying Sterling Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sterling Bancorp include Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY), Ponce Financial Group (PDLB), BCB Bancorp (BCBP), Kearny Financial (KRNY), Western New England Bancorp (WNEB), First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBI), and BV Financial (BVFL). These companies are all part of the "federal savings institutions" industry.
Sterling Bancorp (NASDAQ:SBT) and Northrim BanCorp (NASDAQ:NRIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Northrim BanCorp has a net margin of 17.19% compared to Sterling Bancorp's net margin of 5.79%. Northrim BanCorp's return on equity of 12.50% beat Sterling Bancorp's return on equity.
Northrim BanCorp has higher revenue and earnings than Sterling Bancorp. Northrim BanCorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sterling Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Northrim BanCorp received 39 more outperform votes than Sterling Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.57% of users gave Sterling Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Northrim BanCorp an outperform vote.
26.4% of Sterling Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of Northrim BanCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Sterling Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Northrim BanCorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sterling Bancorp has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northrim BanCorp has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Northrim BanCorp had 3 more articles in the media than Sterling Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Northrim BanCorp and 1 mentions for Sterling Bancorp. Sterling Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Northrim BanCorp's score of 1.09 indicating that Sterling Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Northrim BanCorp beats Sterling Bancorp on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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