AMTB vs. BANF, WSFS, CBU, WAFD, SFNC, PRK, BANC, FFBC, FRME, and TRMK
Should you be buying Amerant Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amerant Bancorp include BancFirst (BANF), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Community Bank System (CBU), WaFd (WAFD), Simmons First National (SFNC), Park National (PRK), Banc of California (BANC), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), First Merchants (FRME), and Trustmark (TRMK). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
BancFirst (NASDAQ:BANF) and Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
BancFirst received 164 more outperform votes than Amerant Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.32% of users gave BancFirst an outperform vote while only 46.67% of users gave Amerant Bancorp an outperform vote.
BancFirst pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. BancFirst pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amerant Bancorp pays out 52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. BancFirst has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years. BancFirst is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
BancFirst has higher revenue and earnings than Amerant Bancorp. BancFirst is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amerant Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BancFirst has a net margin of 24.65% compared to BancFirst's net margin of 3.51%. Amerant Bancorp's return on equity of 14.62% beat BancFirst's return on equity.
51.7% of BancFirst shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.9% of BancFirst shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
BancFirst has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BancFirst had 4 more articles in the media than Amerant Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for BancFirst and 4 mentions for Amerant Bancorp. Amerant Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat BancFirst's score of 0.28 indicating that BancFirst is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BancFirst currently has a consensus target price of $85.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.75%. Amerant Bancorp has a consensus target price of $25.75, suggesting a potential upside of 16.83%. Given BancFirst's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amerant Bancorp is more favorable than BancFirst.
Summary
BancFirst beats Amerant Bancorp on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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