NEWT vs. WABC, HOPE, NIC, SASR, OCFC, BFC, FBMS, AMTB, DCOM, and HAFC
Should you be buying NewtekOne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NewtekOne include Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Bank First (BFC), First Bancshares (FBMS), Amerant Bancorp (AMTB), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), and Hanmi Financial (HAFC). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
NewtekOne (NASDAQ:NEWT) and Westamerica Bancorporation (NASDAQ:WABC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Westamerica Bancorporation has higher revenue and earnings than NewtekOne. Westamerica Bancorporation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NewtekOne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
38.4% of NewtekOne shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Westamerica Bancorporation shares are held by institutional investors. 6.4% of NewtekOne shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Westamerica Bancorporation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NewtekOne presently has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.77%. Westamerica Bancorporation has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.11%. Given Westamerica Bancorporation's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Westamerica Bancorporation is more favorable than NewtekOne.
NewtekOne pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Westamerica Bancorporation pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. NewtekOne pays out 49.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westamerica Bancorporation pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, NewtekOne had 3 more articles in the media than Westamerica Bancorporation. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for NewtekOne and 2 mentions for Westamerica Bancorporation. Westamerica Bancorporation's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat NewtekOne's score of 0.27 indicating that Westamerica Bancorporation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Westamerica Bancorporation has a net margin of 48.35% compared to NewtekOne's net margin of 14.14%. Westamerica Bancorporation's return on equity of 21.99% beat NewtekOne's return on equity.
NewtekOne has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westamerica Bancorporation has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NewtekOne received 81 more outperform votes than Westamerica Bancorporation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.19% of users gave NewtekOne an outperform vote while only 50.32% of users gave Westamerica Bancorporation an outperform vote.
Summary
NewtekOne and Westamerica Bancorporation tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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