EGBN vs. BKU, INDB, TBBK, BOH, CVBF, SFNC, HTLF, TOWN, FFBC, and FRME
Should you be buying Eagle Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bancorp include BankUnited (BKU), Independent Bank (INDB), Bancorp (TBBK), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), CVB Financial (CVBF), Simmons First National (SFNC), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), TowneBank (TOWN), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), and First Merchants (FRME). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Eagle Bancorp vs.
Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) and BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and community ranking.
Eagle Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $28.75, suggesting a potential upside of 26.26%. BankUnited has a consensus target price of $43.40, suggesting a potential upside of 14.80%. Given Eagle Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eagle Bancorp is more favorable than BankUnited.
78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of BankUnited shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of BankUnited shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BankUnited has a net margin of 11.48% compared to Eagle Bancorp's net margin of -6.65%. BankUnited's return on equity of 8.48% beat Eagle Bancorp's return on equity.
Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BankUnited has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. BankUnited pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Eagle Bancorp pays out -42.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BankUnited pays out 37.7% 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.
BankUnited has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bancorp. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BankUnited, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BankUnited had 8 more articles in the media than Eagle Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for BankUnited and 4 mentions for Eagle Bancorp. Eagle Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat BankUnited's score of 1.10 indicating that Eagle Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BankUnited received 62 more outperform votes than Eagle Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.81% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.34% of users gave BankUnited an outperform vote.
Summary
BankUnited beats Eagle Bancorp on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EGBN) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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