MCB vs. FMNB, CCBG, WASH, HONE, THFF, SPFI, MSBI, MCBC, CATC, and HTBK
Should you be buying Metropolitan Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metropolitan Bank include Farmers National Banc (FMNB), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), First Financial (THFF), South Plains Financial (SPFI), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), Macatawa Bank (MCBC), Cambridge Bancorp (CATC), and Heritage Commerce (HTBK). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) and Farmers National Banc (NASDAQ:FMNB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.
Farmers National Banc has a net margin of 21.05% compared to Metropolitan Bank's net margin of 15.82%. Farmers National Banc's return on equity of 16.05% beat Metropolitan Bank's return on equity.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Farmers National Banc. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Farmers National Banc, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.7% of Farmers National Banc shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Farmers National Banc shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Farmers National Banc has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Metropolitan Bank currently has a consensus price target of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 34.08%. Farmers National Banc has a consensus price target of $15.33, suggesting a potential upside of 20.55%. Given Metropolitan Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than Farmers National Banc.
In the previous week, Metropolitan Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Farmers National Banc'saverage media sentiment score.
Farmers National Banc received 8 more outperform votes than Metropolitan Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 54.60% of users gave Farmers National Banc an outperform vote.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats Farmers National Banc on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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