BKU vs. EBC, CLBK, AX, PFS, BRKL, CFFN, FRME, AGM, SBCF, and PLMR
Should you be buying BankUnited stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BankUnited include Eastern Bankshares (EBC), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Axos Financial (AX), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), First Merchants (FRME), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), and Palomar (PLMR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) and Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
99.7% of BankUnited shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of BankUnited shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BankUnited has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastern Bankshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BankUnited. Eastern Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BankUnited, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BankUnited received 373 more outperform votes than Eastern Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.59% of users gave BankUnited an outperform vote while only 48.89% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote.
BankUnited pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. BankUnited pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eastern Bankshares pays out 15.4% 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.
BankUnited currently has a consensus target price of $30.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.89%. Eastern Bankshares has a consensus target price of $15.25, suggesting a potential upside of 16.95%. Given Eastern Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Eastern Bankshares is more favorable than BankUnited.
Eastern Bankshares has a net margin of 49.59% compared to BankUnited's net margin of 8.71%. BankUnited's return on equity of 8.06% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, BankUnited and BankUnited both had 7 articles in the media. Eastern Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat BankUnited's score of 0.67 indicating that Eastern Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Eastern Bankshares beats BankUnited on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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