AMTB vs. IFS, FHB, AUB, CLSK, BFH, BUR, PRK, AVAL, ENVA, and IBTX
Should you be buying Amerant Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amerant Bancorp include Intercorp Financial Services (IFS), First Hawaiian (FHB), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), CleanSpark (CLSK), Bread Financial (BFH), Burford Capital (BUR), Park National (PRK), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Enova International (ENVA), and Independent Bank Group (IBTX). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Amerant Bancorp vs.
Intercorp Financial Services (NYSE:IFS) and Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
Intercorp Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $0.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Intercorp Financial Services pays out 37.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amerant Bancorp pays out -24.3% 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.
Intercorp Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Amerant Bancorp. Amerant Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intercorp Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intercorp Financial Services has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Amerant Bancorp received 21 more outperform votes than Intercorp Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.16% of users gave Intercorp Financial Services an outperform vote while only 48.06% of users gave Amerant Bancorp an outperform vote.
42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Intercorp Financial Services presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.56%. Amerant Bancorp has a consensus target price of $27.20, suggesting a potential upside of 22.27%. Given Amerant Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Amerant Bancorp is more favorable than Intercorp Financial Services.
In the previous week, Amerant Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Intercorp Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Amerant Bancorp and 1 mentions for Intercorp Financial Services. Intercorp Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Amerant Bancorp's score of 0.10 indicating that Intercorp Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intercorp Financial Services has a net margin of 18.00% compared to Amerant Bancorp's net margin of -8.38%. Intercorp Financial Services' return on equity of 10.67% beat Amerant Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Intercorp Financial Services beats Amerant Bancorp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:AMTB) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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