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.
OptimumBank (NASDAQ:OPHC) and Northern Lights Acquisition (NASDAQ:NLIT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, OptimumBank had 3 more articles in the media than Northern Lights Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for OptimumBank and 0 mentions for Northern Lights Acquisition. Northern Lights Acquisition's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat OptimumBank's score of 0.00 indicating that OptimumBank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
OptimumBank has higher revenue and earnings than Northern Lights Acquisition.
7.4% of OptimumBank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Northern Lights Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.9% of OptimumBank shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
OptimumBank has a net margin of 16.43% compared to OptimumBank's net margin of 0.00%. OptimumBank's return on equity of 69.39% beat Northern Lights Acquisition's return on equity.
OptimumBank presently has a consensus target price of $5.25, suggesting a potential upside of 16.67%. Given Northern Lights Acquisition's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe OptimumBank is more favorable than Northern Lights Acquisition.
OptimumBank received 84 more outperform votes than Northern Lights Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
OptimumBank beats Northern Lights Acquisition on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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