NEWT vs OPTU Comparison

NewtekOne Inc provides business and financial solutions under the Newtek and NewtekOne brands to the independent business owner (SMB) market. Its services are offered online and in some cases delivered by staff via video and voice calls. The company offers lending products, FDIC insured deposit products and services, payments processing, payroll services and insurance brokerage services. Loan products include SBA 7(a), ALP, SBA 504, and traditional C&I and CRE bank loans, while deposit products include consumer high yield savings accounts, high yield certificates of deposit, zero-fee business checking and business money market accounts. The company operates through four reportable segments Banking, Alternative Lending, NSBF and Payments.

Optimum's assets were brought together when Altice Europe acquired US cable companies Suddenlink in 2015 and Cablevision in 2016. The Suddenlink business, which management calls the "West," provides television, internet access, and phone services to roughly 4.5 million US homes and businesses located primarily in smaller markets, with major clusters in Texas, West Virginia, Idaho, Arizona, and Louisiana. The Cablevision portion, dubbed the "East," provides comparable services to about 5.5 million homes and businesses in the New York City metro area. Both regions now operate under the Optimum brand name. Altice Europe spun off Optimum, which includes both the Suddenlink and Cablevision operations, to shareholders in 2018.