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Amerant Bancorp (AMTB) Competitors

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$20.62 -0.65 (-3.04%)
Closing price 03/28/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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AMTB vs. EBC, UCB, AVAL, FHB, BUR, RIOT, AUB, CORZ, ENVA, and FINV

Should you be buying Amerant Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amerant Bancorp include Eastern Bankshares (EBC), United Community Banks (UCB), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), First Hawaiian (FHB), Burford Capital (BUR), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), Core Scientific (CORZ), Enova International (ENVA), and FinVolution Group (FINV). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Amerant Bancorp vs.

Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) and Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.

Eastern Bankshares has a net margin of 11.07% compared to Amerant Bancorp's net margin of -8.38%. Amerant Bancorp's return on equity of 6.36% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Amerant Bancorp-8.38% 6.36% 0.51%
Eastern Bankshares 11.07%6.02%0.85%

42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 13.5% of Amerant Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Amerant Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 30.92%. Eastern Bankshares has a consensus target price of $20.25, suggesting a potential upside of 24.08%. Given Amerant Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Amerant Bancorp is more favorable than Eastern Bankshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Amerant Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Eastern Bankshares
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Eastern Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Amerant Bancorp. Amerant Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eastern Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Amerant Bancorp$305.29M2.83-$15.75M-$0.57-36.18
Eastern Bankshares$731.51M4.75$119.56M$0.6724.36

Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Amerant Bancorp pays out -63.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eastern Bankshares pays out 71.6% 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.

In the previous week, Eastern Bankshares had 7 more articles in the media than Amerant Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Eastern Bankshares and 3 mentions for Amerant Bancorp. Amerant Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Eastern Bankshares' score of 1.38 indicating that Amerant Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Amerant Bancorp
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Eastern Bankshares
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Amerant Bancorp received 38 more outperform votes than Eastern Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 51.02% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote while only 48.09% of users gave Amerant Bancorp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Amerant BancorpOutperform Votes
63
48.09%
Underperform Votes
68
51.91%
Eastern BanksharesOutperform Votes
25
51.02%
Underperform Votes
24
48.98%

Summary

Eastern Bankshares beats Amerant Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AMTB vs. The Competition

MetricAmerant BancorpNational commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$864.56M$22.13B$11.28B$7.83B
Dividend Yield1.70%3.37%5.57%4.01%
P/E Ratio-36.1812.3722.6518.67
Price / Sales2.832.8525.7391.01
Price / Cash9.9311.1617.6134.64
Price / Book0.941.162.734.23
Net Income-$15.75M$2.17B$1.04B$247.15M
7 Day Performance-2.25%-0.65%0.06%-2.17%
1 Month Performance-10.17%-5.08%495.52%-5.68%
1 Year Performance-11.45%14.35%536.52%-0.74%

Amerant Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AMTB
Amerant Bancorp
3.8018 of 5 stars
$20.62
-3.0%
$27.00
+30.9%
-11.4%$864.56M$305.29M-36.18680News Coverage
EBC
Eastern Bankshares
4.6436 of 5 stars
$16.95
+2.1%
$20.25
+19.5%
+18.4%$3.61B$731.51M25.292,150Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
UCB
United Community Banks
3.8213 of 5 stars
$28.92
+3.3%
$33.00
+14.1%
N/A$3.45B$930.04M14.173,070News Coverage
Positive News
AVAL
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores
4.0873 of 5 stars
$2.78
+2.8%
N/A+17.9%$3.29B$16.02T16.3274,036Positive News
FHB
First Hawaiian
3.5489 of 5 stars
$25.05
+3.8%
$29.00
+15.8%
+10.6%$3.16B$774.71M13.992,000Positive News
BUR
Burford Capital
4.1597 of 5 stars
$13.93
+0.7%
$19.50
+40.0%
-15.6%$3.06B$341.23M12.01140Short Interest ↑
RIOT
Riot Platforms
3.4797 of 5 stars
$8.72
+9.6%
$17.18
+97.2%
-39.5%$3.05B$376.66M20.27340
AUB
Atlantic Union Bankshares
4.8049 of 5 stars
$32.94
+2.9%
$43.20
+31.2%
-13.1%$2.96B$817.42M14.381,880News Coverage
Positive News
CORZ
Core Scientific
3.6761 of 5 stars
$9.33
+9.6%
$19.07
+104.4%
+111.3%$2.75B$510.67M-1.73200Options Volume
ENVA
Enova International
2.8511 of 5 stars
$101.88
+4.6%
$110.14
+8.1%
+52.8%$2.63B$2.66B13.701,800Insider Trade
News Coverage
Gap Up
FINV
FinVolution Group
3.1018 of 5 stars
$9.86
-1.8%
$11.40
+15.7%
+93.4%$2.61B$13.07B8.494,260Short Interest ↓
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This page (NASDAQ:AMTB) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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