MNSB vs. EQBK, HTBK, FSBC, MSBI, MCBC, MCB, HONE, CCBG, FMNB, and WASH
Should you be buying MainStreet Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MainStreet Bancshares include Equity Bancshares (EQBK), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), Five Star Bancorp (FSBC), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), Macatawa Bank (MCBC), Metropolitan Bank (MCB), HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Farmers National Banc (FMNB), and Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Equity Bancshares (NASDAQ:EQBK) and MainStreet Bancshares (NASDAQ:MNSB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
71.8% of Equity Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.3% of MainStreet Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Equity Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of MainStreet Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MainStreet Bancshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equity Bancshares. MainStreet Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Equity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. MainStreet Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Equity Bancshares pays out 80.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MainStreet Bancshares pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equity Bancshares has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and MainStreet Bancshares has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. MainStreet Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Equity Bancshares has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MainStreet Bancshares has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Equity Bancshares received 129 more outperform votes than MainStreet Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.58% of users gave Equity Bancshares an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave MainStreet Bancshares an outperform vote.
Equity Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $32.67, suggesting a potential downside of 3.07%. MainStreet Bancshares has a consensus price target of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 42.01%. Given Equity Bancshares' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MainStreet Bancshares is more favorable than Equity Bancshares.
MainStreet Bancshares has a net margin of 16.55% compared to MainStreet Bancshares' net margin of 3.88%. MainStreet Bancshares' return on equity of 12.08% beat Equity Bancshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, Equity Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than MainStreet Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Equity Bancshares and 3 mentions for MainStreet Bancshares. Equity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat MainStreet Bancshares' score of 1.05 indicating that MainStreet Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Equity Bancshares beats MainStreet Bancshares on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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