STB vs. BIRG, ARBB, CBKD, MTRO, WKOF, KPC, LIT, AATG, AMAT, and VSL
Should you be buying Secure Trust Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Secure Trust Bank include Bank of Ireland Group (BIRG), Arbuthnot Banking Group (ARBB), Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. (CBKD), Metro Bank (MTRO), Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF), Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust (KPC), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Albion Technology & Gen VCT (AATG), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and VPC Specialty Lending Investments (VSL). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Bank of Ireland Group (LON:BIRG) and Secure Trust Bank (LON:STB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
57.8% of Bank of Ireland Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Secure Trust Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Bank of Ireland Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.6% of Secure Trust Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bank of Ireland Group has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Secure Trust Bank has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Secure Trust Bank has a consensus target price of GBX 1,420, indicating a potential upside of 84.42%. Given Bank of Ireland Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Secure Trust Bank is more favorable than Bank of Ireland Group.
In the previous week, Secure Trust Bank had 9 more articles in the media than Bank of Ireland Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Secure Trust Bank and 3 mentions for Bank of Ireland Group. Bank of Ireland Group's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Secure Trust Bank's score of 1.01 indicating that Secure Trust Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bank of Ireland Group has higher revenue and earnings than Secure Trust Bank. Bank of Ireland Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Trust Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of Ireland Group has a net margin of 39.01% compared to Bank of Ireland Group's net margin of 17.14%. Secure Trust Bank's return on equity of 13.30% beat Bank of Ireland Group's return on equity.
Secure Trust Bank received 222 more outperform votes than Bank of Ireland Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.22% of users gave Bank of Ireland Group an outperform vote while only 76.49% of users gave Secure Trust Bank an outperform vote.
Bank of Ireland Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 585.4%. Secure Trust Bank pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Bank of Ireland Group pays out 4,316.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Secure Trust Bank pays out 2,335.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Secure Trust Bank beats Bank of Ireland Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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