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.
Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) and Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Enterprise Financial Services has a net margin of 20.60% compared to Customers Bancorp's net margin of 16.88%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 18.17% beat Enterprise Financial Services' return on equity.
Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Financial Services has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Customers Bancorp has higher revenue and 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.
In the previous week, Customers Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Enterprise Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Customers Bancorp and 0 mentions for Enterprise Financial Services. Enterprise Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Customers Bancorp's score of 0.35 indicating that Enterprise Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Customers Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $61.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.95%. Enterprise Financial Services has a consensus target price of $47.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.91%. Given Customers Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Customers Bancorp is more favorable than Enterprise Financial Services.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Enterprise Financial Services on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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