FBK vs. MBIN, OFG, TFIN, RNST, HTLF, IBTX, TOWN, BANR, LKFN, and LOB
Should you be buying FB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FB Financial include Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), OFG Bancorp (OFG), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Renasant (RNST), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), TowneBank (TOWN), Banner (BANR), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), and Live Oak Bancshares (LOB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
FB Financial (NYSE:FBK) and Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:MBIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
FB Financial received 38 more outperform votes than Merchants Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.65% of users gave Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.90% of users gave FB Financial an outperform vote.
65.4% of FB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.6% of Merchants Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of FB Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.7% of Merchants Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Merchants Bancorp has a net margin of 23.55% compared to FB Financial's net margin of 14.90%. Merchants Bancorp's return on equity of 26.65% beat FB Financial's return on equity.
FB Financial presently has a consensus price target of $39.43, indicating a potential upside of 0.63%. Merchants Bancorp has a consensus price target of $55.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.67%. Given Merchants Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Merchants Bancorp is more favorable than FB Financial.
FB Financial has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. FB Financial pays out 28.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Merchants Bancorp pays out 5.7% 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.
In the previous week, Merchants Bancorp had 15 more articles in the media than FB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Merchants Bancorp and 3 mentions for FB Financial. FB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Merchants Bancorp's score of 0.63 indicating that FB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Merchants Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FB Financial. Merchants Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Merchants Bancorp beats FB Financial on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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