STB vs. ARBB, BIRG, CBKD, MFX, NBS, PTSB, LLOY, NWG, AIBG, and VMUK
Should you be buying Secure Trust Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Secure Trust Bank include Arbuthnot Banking Group (ARBB), Bank of Ireland Group (BIRG), Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. (CBKD), Manx Financial Group (MFX), Nationwide Building Society (NBS), Permanent TSB Group (PTSB), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), AIB Group (AIBG), and Virgin Money UK (VMUK). These companies are all part of the "banks - regional" industry.
Secure Trust Bank vs.
Arbuthnot Banking Group (LON:ARBB) and Secure Trust Bank (LON:STB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
20.0% of Arbuthnot Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.4% of Secure Trust Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 64.3% of Arbuthnot Banking Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Secure Trust Bank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Secure Trust Bank has a consensus price target of GBX 1,420, suggesting a potential upside of 231.78%. Given Secure Trust Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Secure Trust Bank is more favorable than Arbuthnot Banking Group.
Arbuthnot Banking Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Secure Trust Bank. Secure Trust Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arbuthnot Banking Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Arbuthnot Banking Group has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Secure Trust Bank has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Secure Trust Bank received 148 more outperform votes than Arbuthnot Banking Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.94% of users gave Secure Trust Bank an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave Arbuthnot Banking Group an outperform vote.
Arbuthnot Banking Group has a net margin of 12.76% compared to Secure Trust Bank's net margin of 7.20%. Arbuthnot Banking Group's return on equity of 12.11% beat Secure Trust Bank's return on equity.
Arbuthnot Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 47 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Secure Trust Bank pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Arbuthnot Banking Group pays out 24.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Secure Trust Bank pays out 20.7% 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. Secure Trust Bank is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Arbuthnot Banking Group had 3 more articles in the media than Secure Trust Bank. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Arbuthnot Banking Group and 0 mentions for Secure Trust Bank. Arbuthnot Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Secure Trust Bank's score of 0.00 indicating that Arbuthnot Banking Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Arbuthnot Banking Group beats Secure Trust Bank on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:STB) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
