SMMF vs. CSTR, STXB, MCB, MCBC, SONA, EFSC, CUBI, RBCAA, SYBT, and FBNC
Should you be buying Summit Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Summit Financial Group include CapStar Financial (CSTR), Spirit of Texas Bancshares (STXB), Metropolitan Bank (MCB), Macatawa Bank (MCBC), Southern National Bancorp of Virginia (SONA), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), and First Bancorp (FBNC).
CapStar Financial (NASDAQ:CSTR) and Summit Financial Group (NASDAQ:SMMF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and earnings.
CapStar Financial has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summit Financial Group has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Summit Financial Group had 1 more articles in the media than CapStar Financial. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Summit Financial Group and 0 mentions for CapStar Financial. CapStar Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Summit Financial Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Summit Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
52.2% of CapStar Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.7% of Summit Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of CapStar Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Summit Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summit Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than CapStar Financial. Summit Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CapStar Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CapStar Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Summit Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. CapStar Financial pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Summit Financial Group pays out 22.7% 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. CapStar Financial has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Summit Financial Group has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Summit Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summit Financial Group has a net margin of 20.84% compared to Summit Financial Group's net margin of 16.17%. CapStar Financial's return on equity of 14.25% beat Summit Financial Group's return on equity.
CapStar Financial presently has a consensus target price of $15.75, indicating a potential downside of 21.64%. Summit Financial Group has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.06%. Given CapStar Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Summit Financial Group is more favorable than CapStar Financial.
CapStar Financial received 143 more outperform votes than Summit Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.36% of users gave Summit Financial Group an outperform vote while only 56.90% of users gave CapStar Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Summit Financial Group beats CapStar Financial on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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