NWBI vs. NBHC, WABC, CHCO, HOPE, SASR, RDN, SMPL, TFSL, WD, and NYCB
Should you be buying Northwest Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northwest Bancshares include National Bank (NBHC), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), City (CHCO), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), Radian Group (RDN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), TFS Financial (TFSL), Walker & Dunlop (WD), and New York Community Bancorp (NYCB).
National Bank (NYSE:NBHC) and Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
92.7% of National Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of National Bank shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
National Bank has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
National Bank currently has a consensus price target of $38.63, suggesting a potential upside of 5.91%. Northwest Bancshares has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.46%. Given Northwest Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe National Bank is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
National Bank has a net margin of 22.94% compared to National Bank's net margin of 17.84%. Northwest Bancshares' return on equity of 11.20% beat National Bank's return on equity.
In the previous week, National Bank had 5 more articles in the media than Northwest Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for National Bank and 1 mentions for Northwest Bancshares. National Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of 0.40 indicating that Northwest Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 55.19% of users gave National Bank an outperform vote.
National Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. National Bank pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has increased its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
National Bank has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
National Bank beats Northwest Bancshares on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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