NLIT vs. OPHC, CFSB, SDIG, LICN, BMTX, CPBI, MSVB, SHFS, HUIZ, and HFBL
Should you be buying Northern Lights Acquisition stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern Lights Acquisition include OptimumBank (OPHC), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), Stronghold Digital Mining (SDIG), Lichen China (LICN), BM Technologies (BMTX), Central Plains Bancshares (CPBI), Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB), SHF (SHFS), Huize (HUIZ), and Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Northern Lights Acquisition (NASDAQ:NLIT) and OptimumBank (NASDAQ:OPHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
70.9% of Northern Lights Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.4% of OptimumBank shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.9% of OptimumBank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
OptimumBank has higher revenue and earnings than Northern Lights Acquisition.
In the previous week, OptimumBank had 2 more articles in the media than Northern Lights Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for OptimumBank and 0 mentions for Northern Lights Acquisition. OptimumBank's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Northern Lights Acquisition's score of 0.00 indicating that OptimumBank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OptimumBank received 84 more outperform votes than Northern Lights Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users.
OptimumBank has a consensus target price of $5.25, suggesting a potential upside of 16.67%. Given OptimumBank's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe OptimumBank is more favorable than Northern Lights Acquisition.
OptimumBank has a net margin of 16.43% compared to Northern Lights Acquisition's net margin of 0.00%. Northern Lights Acquisition's return on equity of 69.39% beat OptimumBank's return on equity.
Summary
OptimumBank beats Northern Lights Acquisition on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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