MCBC vs. MCB, STXB, CSTR, SMMF, OSBC, SBCF, IBTX, HTLF, MBIN, and OFG
Should you be buying Macatawa Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Macatawa Bank include Metropolitan Bank (MCB), Spirit of Texas Bancshares (STXB), CapStar Financial (CSTR), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), and OFG Bancorp (OFG).
Macatawa Bank (NASDAQ:MCBC) and Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Macatawa Bank received 14 more outperform votes than Metropolitan Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 58.51% of users gave Macatawa Bank an outperform vote.
Macatawa Bank has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Macatawa Bank had 4 more articles in the media than Metropolitan Bank. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Macatawa Bank and 0 mentions for Metropolitan Bank. Metropolitan Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Macatawa Bank's score of 0.62 indicating that Metropolitan Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Macatawa Bank presently has a consensus price target of $12.83, indicating a potential downside of 8.72%. Metropolitan Bank has a consensus price target of $56.50, indicating a potential upside of 34.36%. Given Metropolitan Bank's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than Macatawa Bank.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Macatawa Bank. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Macatawa Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
42.5% of Macatawa Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of Macatawa Bank shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Macatawa Bank has a net margin of 30.56% compared to Metropolitan Bank's net margin of 15.82%. Macatawa Bank's return on equity of 14.73% beat Metropolitan Bank's return on equity.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats Macatawa Bank on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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