FMAO vs. CUBI, VBTX, QCRH, CMPO, BY, CCB, FBMS, OBK, SII, and FSUN
Should you be buying Farmers & Merchants Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp include Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Veritex (VBTX), QCR (QCRH), CompoSecure (CMPO), Byline Bancorp (BY), Coastal Financial (CCB), First Bancshares (FBMS), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Sprott (SII), and Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp vs.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:FMAO) and Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Customers Bancorp has a net margin of 15.22% compared to Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's net margin of 13.16%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 13.55% beat Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's return on equity.
24.0% of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 7.9% of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by 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.
Customers Bancorp received 167 more outperform votes than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.79% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Farmers & Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote.
Customers Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. Customers Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Customers Bancorp had 21 more articles in the media than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Customers Bancorp and 1 mentions for Farmers & Merchants Bancorp. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Customers Bancorp's score of 0.06 indicating that Farmers & Merchants Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.11%. Customers Bancorp has a consensus target price of $62.22, indicating a potential upside of 24.86%. Given Customers Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Customers Bancorp is more favorable than Farmers & Merchants Bancorp.
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Farmers & Merchants Bancorp on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:FMAO) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
