HFWA vs. NBBK, GCBC, SMBC, HIFS, BHLB, HBCP, TCBX, FSBW, NECB, and BLFY
Should you be buying Heritage Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Heritage Financial include NB Bancorp (NBBK), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Home Bancorp (HBCP), Third Coast Bancshares (TCBX), FS Bancorp (FSBW), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), and Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY). These companies are all part of the "savings institutions, except federal" industry.
NB Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBBK) and Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
Heritage Financial has higher revenue and earnings than NB Bancorp.
NB Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.55%. Heritage Financial has a consensus target price of $22.25, suggesting a potential upside of 18.23%. Given NB Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Heritage Financial is more favorable than NB Bancorp.
Heritage Financial has a net margin of 15.70% compared to Heritage Financial's net margin of 0.00%. NB Bancorp's return on equity of 8.18% beat Heritage Financial's return on equity.
78.3% of Heritage Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of NB Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Heritage Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Heritage Financial received 332 more outperform votes than NB Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NB Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.22% of users gave Heritage Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NB Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Heritage Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for NB Bancorp and 2 mentions for Heritage Financial. Heritage Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat NB Bancorp's score of 0.04 indicating that NB Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Heritage Financial beats NB Bancorp on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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