MBIN vs. FBK, OFG, HTLF, TFIN, RNST, TOWN, HTH, IBTX, SBCF, and LKFN
Should you be buying Merchants Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Merchants Bancorp include FB Financial (FBK), OFG Bancorp (OFG), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Renasant (RNST), TowneBank (TOWN), Hilltop (HTH), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), and Lakeland Financial (LKFN). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
FB Financial (NYSE:FBK) and Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:MBIN) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
FB Financial currently has a consensus price target of $39.43, indicating a potential upside of 2.23%. Merchants Bancorp has a consensus price target of $56.75, indicating a potential upside of 20.16%. Given FB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Merchants Bancorp is more favorable than FB Financial.
FB Financial received 40 more outperform votes than Merchants Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.42% of users gave Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.90% of users gave FB Financial an outperform vote.
65.4% of FB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.6% of Merchants Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of FB Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.7% of Merchants Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Merchants Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than FB Financial. Merchants Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FB Financial has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Merchants Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than FB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Merchants Bancorp and 2 mentions for FB Financial. FB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Merchants Bancorp's score of 0.80 indicating that Merchants Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. FB Financial pays out 28.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Merchants Bancorp pays out 5.7% 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. FB Financial has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Merchants Bancorp has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Merchants Bancorp has a net margin of 23.55% compared to Merchants Bancorp's net margin of 14.90%. FB Financial's return on equity of 27.51% beat Merchants Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Merchants Bancorp beats FB Financial on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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