SB vs FFIC Comparison

Safe Bulkers Inc is an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes, particularly coal, grain and iron ore, along international shipping routes for consumers of marine drybulk transportation services. The company employs its vessels on both period time charters and spot time charters, according to the assessment of market conditions, with consumers of marine drybulk transportation services.

Flushing Financial Corp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company is engaged in attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits together with funds generated from ongoing operations and borrowings, mainly in originations and purchases of multi-family residential properties loans, commercial business loans, commercial real estate mortgage loans and, to a lesser extent, one-to-four family loans (focusing on mixed-use properties, which are properties that contain both residential dwelling units and commercial units). It also operates an internet branch, under the brands of iGObanking.com and BankPurely. The company operates as a single unit, a community bank.