AMTB vs. EBC, AX, UCB, IFS, ASB, CORZ, FHB, BUR, AVAL, and AUB
Should you be buying Amerant Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amerant Bancorp include Eastern Bankshares (EBC), Axos Financial (AX), United Community Banks (UCB), Intercorp Financial Services (IFS), Associated Banc (ASB), Core Scientific (CORZ), First Hawaiian (FHB), Burford Capital (BUR), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), and Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB). 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 compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
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.
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.
Amerant Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.97%. Eastern Bankshares has a consensus target price of $20.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.12%. Given Amerant Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Amerant Bancorp is more favorable than Eastern Bankshares.
In the previous week, Amerant Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Eastern Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Amerant Bancorp and 2 mentions for Eastern Bankshares. Eastern Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Amerant Bancorp's score of 0.90 indicating that Eastern Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. 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.
42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.5% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Eastern Bankshares beats Amerant Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:AMTB) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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