EBTC vs. BWB, WTBA, RBB, CZNC, CSTR, STBA, PFBC, SASR, PEBO, and GABC
Should you be buying Enterprise Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Bancorp include Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB), West Bancorporation (WTBA), RBB Bancorp (RBB), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), CapStar Financial (CSTR), S&T Bancorp (STBA), Preferred Bank (PFBC), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), and German American Bancorp (GABC).
Bridgewater Bancshares (NASDAQ:BWB) and Enterprise Bancorp (NASDAQ:EBTC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Bridgewater Bancshares has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Bancorp has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Bancorp received 104 more outperform votes than Bridgewater Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.89% of users gave Enterprise Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.32% of users gave Bridgewater Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bridgewater Bancshares had 2 more articles in the media than Enterprise Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Bridgewater Bancshares and 2 mentions for Enterprise Bancorp. Bridgewater Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Enterprise Bancorp's score of 1.15 indicating that Enterprise Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
65.8% of Bridgewater Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.9% of Enterprise Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of Bridgewater Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.7% of Enterprise Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Enterprise Bancorp has a net margin of 15.80% compared to Enterprise Bancorp's net margin of 15.37%. Bridgewater Bancshares' return on equity of 11.28% beat Enterprise Bancorp's return on equity.
Bridgewater Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.10%. Given Enterprise Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bridgewater Bancshares is more favorable than Enterprise Bancorp.
Bridgewater Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Enterprise Bancorp. Enterprise Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgewater Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bridgewater Bancshares beats Enterprise Bancorp on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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