CUBI vs. EFSC, LKFN, LOB, BANR, SYBT, IBTX, FBNC, BUSE, RNST, and TFIN
Should you be buying Customers Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Customers Bancorp include Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Banner (BANR), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), First Bancorp (FBNC), First Busey (BUSE), Renasant (RNST), and Triumph Financial (TFIN). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) and Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
Customers Bancorp received 71 more outperform votes than Enterprise Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.56% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 56.88% of users gave Enterprise Financial Services an outperform vote.
Enterprise Financial Services has a net margin of 20.60% compared to Enterprise Financial Services' net margin of 16.88%. Enterprise Financial Services' return on equity of 18.17% beat Customers Bancorp's return on equity.
Enterprise Financial Services has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Financial Services currently has a consensus target price of $47.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.74%. Customers Bancorp has a consensus target price of $61.50, suggesting a potential upside of 27.51%. Given Enterprise Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Customers Bancorp is more favorable than Enterprise Financial Services.
In the previous week, Customers Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Enterprise Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Customers Bancorp and 3 mentions for Enterprise Financial Services. Customers Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Enterprise Financial Services' score of 0.12 indicating that Enterprise Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.2% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Customers Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Enterprise Financial Services. Customers Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enterprise Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Enterprise Financial Services on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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