NWBI vs. NBHC, WAFD, OCFC, DCOM, BANC, WSFS, FCF, CASH, WABC, and HOPE
Should you be buying Northwest Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Bancshares include National Bank (NBHC), WaFd (WAFD), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Banc of California (BANC), WSFS Financial (WSFS), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Pathward Financial (CASH), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), and Hope Bancorp (HOPE).
Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) and National Bank (NYSE:NBHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Northwest Bancshares received 40 more outperform votes than National Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.68% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 55.58% of users gave National Bank an outperform vote.
Northwest Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. National Bank has a consensus price target of $38.63, suggesting a potential upside of 10.52%. Given National Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe National Bank is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
National Bank has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Northwest Bancshares. National Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northwest Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, National Bank had 4 more articles in the media than Northwest Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for National Bank and 2 mentions for Northwest Bancshares. National Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of 0.00 indicating that National Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. National Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. 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. National Bank pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Bank has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of National Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of National Bank shares are owned 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.
National Bank has a net margin of 22.94% compared to Northwest Bancshares' net margin of 17.84%. National Bank's return on equity of 11.20% beat Northwest Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
National Bank beats Northwest Bancshares on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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