EBC vs. SOFI, BSAC, ALLY, CIB, UWMC, GGAL, WF, QFIN, COOP, and OMF
Should you be buying Eastern Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastern Bankshares include SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Ally Financial (ALLY), Bancolombia (CIB), UWM (UWMC), Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL), Woori Financial Group (WF), Qifu Technology (QFIN), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), and OneMain (OMF). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Eastern Bankshares vs.
SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) and Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
SoFi Technologies has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SoFi Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $12.50, suggesting a potential downside of 7.68%. Eastern Bankshares has a consensus price target of $20.25, suggesting a potential upside of 20.82%. Given Eastern Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Eastern Bankshares is more favorable than SoFi Technologies.
SoFi Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Eastern Bankshares. Eastern Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SoFi Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
38.4% of SoFi Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of SoFi Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SoFi Technologies received 32 more outperform votes than Eastern Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 51.02% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote while only 37.75% of users gave SoFi Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SoFi Technologies had 34 more articles in the media than Eastern Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for SoFi Technologies and 6 mentions for Eastern Bankshares. Eastern Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat SoFi Technologies' score of 0.72 indicating that Eastern Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SoFi Technologies has a net margin of 18.64% compared to Eastern Bankshares' net margin of 11.07%. Eastern Bankshares' return on equity of 6.02% beat SoFi Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
SoFi Technologies beats Eastern Bankshares on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EBC) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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