Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB) & The Competition Financial Comparison

Northeast Community Bancorp (OTCMKTS:NECB – Get Rating) is one of 36 publicly-traded companies in the “Savings institutions, except federal” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Northeast Community Bancorp to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Northeast Community Bancorp and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Northeast Community Bancorp	0	0	1	0	3.00
Northeast Community Bancorp Competitors	128	471	304	17	2.23

Northeast Community Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.26%. As a group, “Savings institutions, except federal” companies have a potential upside of 8.60%. Given Northeast Community Bancorp’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Northeast Community Bancorp is more favorable than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

Northeast Community Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northeast Community Bancorp’s peers have a beta of 0.69, indicating that their average share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Northeast Community Bancorp and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Northeast Community Bancorp	$50.76 million	$11.90 million	12.72
Northeast Community Bancorp Competitors	$139.52 million	$38.84 million	-0.51

Northeast Community Bancorp’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Northeast Community Bancorp. Northeast Community Bancorp is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

30.1% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.7% of shares of all “Savings institutions, except federal” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Northeast Community Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of shares of all “Savings institutions, except federal” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Northeast Community Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Northeast Community Bancorp pays out 27.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Savings institutions, except federal” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.6% and pay out 16.8% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

This table compares Northeast Community Bancorp and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Northeast Community Bancorp	23.74%	5.58%	1.08%
Northeast Community Bancorp Competitors	20.00%	7.99%	0.85%

Summary

Northeast Community Bancorp peers beat Northeast Community Bancorp on 8 of the 15 factors compared.

About Northeast Community Bancorp (Get Rating)

Northeast Community Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for NorthEast Community Bank that provides financial services for individuals and businesses. It accepts various deposit instruments, including checking accounts, money market accounts, regular savings accounts, and non-interest bearing demand accounts. The company also offers construction, commercial and industrial, multifamily and mixed-use real estate, non-residential real estate loans, and consumer loans. In addition, it invests in various types of liquid assets, including U.S. Treasury obligations, municipal securities, deposits at the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, and certificates of deposit of federally insured institutions, as well as securities of various federal agencies, and of state and municipal governments. Further, the company offers investment advisory and financial planning services; and life insurance products and fixed-rate annuities. It operates seven full-service branches in New York and three full-service branches in Massachusetts; and loan production offices in White Plains and New City, New York, as well as Danvers, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1934 and is based in White Plains, New York.