We prove that every finite-expansive homeomorphism with the shadowing property has a kind of stability. This stability will be good enough to imply both the shadowing property and the denseness of periodic points in the chain recurrent set. Next we analyze the N-shadowing property which is really stronger than the multishadowing property in Cherkashin and Kryzhevich (Topol Methods Nonlinear Anal 50(1): 125–150, 2017). We show that an equicontinuous homeomorphism has the N-shadowing property for some positive integer N if and only if it has the shadowing property.