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Amerant Bancorp (AMTB) Competitors

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$23.86 -0.14 (-0.58%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

AMTB vs. EBC, AUB, CLSK, FHB, PRK, BFH, WULF, PPBI, IBTX, and ENVA

Should you be buying Amerant Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amerant Bancorp include Eastern Bankshares (EBC), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), CleanSpark (CLSK), First Hawaiian (FHB), Park National (PRK), Bread Financial (BFH), TeraWulf (WULF), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), and Enova International (ENVA). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Amerant Bancorp vs.

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

Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Eastern Bankshares pays out 19.0% 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.

Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Eastern Bankshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Eastern Bankshares$558.71M7.09$232.18M$2.327.95
Amerant Bancorp$636.08M1.58$32.49M-$1.48-16.12

In the previous week, Eastern Bankshares had 3 more articles in the media than Amerant Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Eastern Bankshares and 2 mentions for Amerant Bancorp. Amerant Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Eastern Bankshares' score of 0.98 indicating that Amerant Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Eastern Bankshares
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Amerant Bancorp
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 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, 48.94% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote while only 48.03% of users gave Amerant Bancorp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Eastern BanksharesOutperform Votes
23
48.94%
Underperform Votes
24
51.06%
Amerant BancorpOutperform Votes
61
48.03%
Underperform Votes
66
51.97%

Eastern Bankshares has a net margin of 38.00% compared to Amerant Bancorp's net margin of -8.38%. Amerant Bancorp's return on equity of 5.73% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Eastern Bankshares38.00% 4.49% 0.64%
Amerant Bancorp -8.38%5.73%0.45%

71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Amerant Bancorp shares are held 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.

Eastern Bankshares presently has a consensus price target of $18.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.63%. Amerant Bancorp has a consensus price target of $25.60, suggesting a potential upside of 7.29%. Given Amerant Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Amerant Bancorp is more favorable than Eastern Bankshares.

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

Summary

Eastern Bankshares and Amerant Bancorp tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AMTB vs. The Competition

MetricAmerant BancorpNational commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.00B$22.58B$11.08B$8.74B
Dividend Yield1.51%3.13%5.95%4.07%
P/E Ratio-16.1227.7226.0713.27
Price / Sales1.582.3944.1781.14
Price / Cash10.4410.8618.5935.77
Price / Book1.111.253.725.92
Net Income$32.49M$2.24B$998.34M$225.73M
7 Day Performance-0.58%0.44%-0.06%-1.34%
1 Month Performance12.65%6.15%1.87%1.15%
1 Year Performance13.08%32.90%24.82%24.02%

Amerant Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AMTB
Amerant Bancorp
1.7564 of 5 stars
$23.86
-0.6%
$25.60
+7.3%
+17.0%$1.00B$636.08M-16.12680Positive News
EBC
Eastern Bankshares
4.4008 of 5 stars
$18.45
-0.6%
$18.75
+1.6%
+48.0%$3.96B$558.71M7.951,744Gap Down
AUB
Atlantic Union Bankshares
2.0389 of 5 stars
$42.48
-0.4%
$40.40
-4.9%
+34.3%$3.81B$1.05B17.631,804Positive News
CLSK
CleanSpark
2.2137 of 5 stars
$14.03
+0.4%
$21.42
+52.6%
+265.4%$3.55B$168.41M0.00130Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
FHB
First Hawaiian
2.1358 of 5 stars
$27.20
-0.1%
$24.33
-10.5%
+39.8%$3.48B$1.12B15.542,000Short Interest ↓
Positive News
PRK
Park National
0.9235 of 5 stars
$192.55
+0.1%
$130.00
-32.5%
+70.8%$3.11B$564.30M22.791,799
BFH
Bread Financial
3.8307 of 5 stars
$58.50
+3.2%
$49.64
-15.1%
+122.2%$2.91B$3.93B9.327,000Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
WULF
TeraWulf
2.2918 of 5 stars
$7.18
+3.3%
$7.21
+0.5%
+597.1%$2.77B$69.23M0.006Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
PPBI
Pacific Premier Bancorp
2.4349 of 5 stars
$27.75
+0.3%
$26.50
-4.5%
+24.6%$2.68B$714.07M-184.991,345Short Interest ↓
IBTX
Independent Bank Group
1.8548 of 5 stars
$63.57
-0.4%
$58.83
-7.5%
+65.8%$2.63B$922.84M-6.081,517Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
ENVA
Enova International
3.3006 of 5 stars
$100.51
-0.4%
$91.14
-9.3%
+154.5%$2.63B$2.12B16.031,675Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:AMTB) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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