NFBK vs. KRNY, FMAO, HTBI, WSBF, PFC, NWBI, PFS, BHLB, OCFC, and BRKL
Should you be buying Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) include Kearny Financial (KRNY), Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMAO), HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI), Waterstone Financial (WSBF), Premier Financial (PFC), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), and Brookline Bancorp (BRKL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NASDAQ:NFBK) and Kearny Financial (NASDAQ:KRNY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and dividends.
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.37%. Given Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY)'s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) is more favorable than Kearny Financial.
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) received 19 more outperform votes than Kearny Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.11% of users gave Kearny Financial an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) an outperform vote.
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kearny Financial has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kearny Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY). Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kearny Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.5% of Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Kearny Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Kearny Financial shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY)'s average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Kearny Financial'saverage media sentiment score.
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) has a net margin of 14.02% compared to Kearny Financial's net margin of 4.80%. Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY)'s return on equity of 4.65% beat Kearny Financial's return on equity.
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Kearny Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) pays out 69.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kearny Financial pays out 176.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) and Kearny Financial tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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