MBWM vs. GSBC, EGBN, FCBC, UVSP, CPF, IBCP, BFST, HBNC, HTBK, and MSBI
Should you be buying Mercantile Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercantile Bank include Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Univest Financial (UVSP), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Independent Bank (IBCP), Business First Bancshares (BFST), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), and Midland States Bancorp (MSBI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Mercantile Bank (NASDAQ:MBWM) and Great Southern Bancorp (NASDAQ:GSBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Mercantile Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Great Southern Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Mercantile Bank pays out 27.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Great Southern Bancorp pays out 31.4% 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. Mercantile Bank is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mercantile Bank has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Southern Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Mercantile Bank currently has a consensus price target of $47.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.52%. Great Southern Bancorp has a consensus price target of $57.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.94%. Given Mercantile Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Mercantile Bank is more favorable than Great Southern Bancorp.
Mercantile Bank received 79 more outperform votes than Great Southern Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.08% of users gave Mercantile Bank an outperform vote while only 55.83% of users gave Great Southern Bancorp an outperform vote.
58.6% of Mercantile Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Mercantile Bank shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.6% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mercantile Bank has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Great Southern Bancorp. Mercantile Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Southern Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Great Southern Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Mercantile Bank. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Great Southern Bancorp and 1 mentions for Mercantile Bank. Great Southern Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Mercantile Bank's score of -1.00 indicating that Great Southern Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mercantile Bank has a net margin of 25.58% compared to Great Southern Bancorp's net margin of 18.31%. Mercantile Bank's return on equity of 16.74% beat Great Southern Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Mercantile Bank beats Great Southern Bancorp on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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