MCB vs. HTLF, OFG, FBK, MBIN, TFIN, RNST, BANR, LKFN, LOB, and EFSC
Should you be buying Metropolitan Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metropolitan Bank include Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), OFG Bancorp (OFG), FB Financial (FBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Renasant (RNST), Banner (BANR), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), and Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Heartland Financial USA (NASDAQ:HTLF) and Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) 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, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Heartland Financial USA received 217 more outperform votes than Metropolitan Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 58.68% of users gave Heartland Financial USA an outperform vote.
Heartland Financial USA has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Metropolitan Bank has a net margin of 15.82% compared to Metropolitan Bank's net margin of 8.17%. Metropolitan Bank's return on equity of 11.33% beat Heartland Financial USA's return on equity.
Heartland Financial USA has higher revenue and earnings than Metropolitan Bank. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heartland Financial USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Heartland Financial USA currently has a consensus target price of $45.60, suggesting a potential upside of 7.14%. Metropolitan Bank has a consensus target price of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 38.85%. Given Heartland Financial USA's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than Heartland Financial USA.
71.6% of Heartland Financial USA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Heartland Financial USA shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Metropolitan Bank 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.
In the previous week, Heartland Financial USA had 6 more articles in the media than Metropolitan Bank. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Heartland Financial USA and 0 mentions for Metropolitan Bank. Metropolitan Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Heartland Financial USA's score of 0.00 indicating that Heartland Financial USA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Heartland Financial USA beats Metropolitan Bank on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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