MBWM vs. BKU, INDB, BOH, TBBK, SFNC, CVBF, HTLF, TOWN, FFBC, and FRME
Should you be buying Mercantile Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercantile Bank include BankUnited (BKU), Independent Bank (INDB), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), Bancorp (TBBK), Simmons First National (SFNC), CVB Financial (CVBF), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), TowneBank (TOWN), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), and First Merchants (FRME). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Mercantile Bank vs.
Mercantile Bank (NASDAQ:MBWM) and BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Mercantile Bank has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, BankUnited has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mercantile Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. BankUnited pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Mercantile Bank pays out 29.1% 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. Mercantile Bank has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
BankUnited has higher revenue and earnings than Mercantile Bank. Mercantile Bank 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 13 more articles in the media than Mercantile Bank. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for BankUnited and 0 mentions for Mercantile Bank. BankUnited's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Mercantile Bank's score of 0.00 indicating that BankUnited is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BankUnited received 86 more outperform votes than Mercantile Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.06% of users gave Mercantile Bank an outperform vote while only 55.34% of users gave BankUnited an outperform vote.
58.6% of Mercantile Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of BankUnited shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Mercantile Bank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of BankUnited shares are owned 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.
Mercantile Bank has a net margin of 21.99% compared to BankUnited's net margin of 11.48%. Mercantile Bank's return on equity of 14.29% beat BankUnited's return on equity.
Mercantile Bank currently has a consensus target price of $54.67, indicating a potential upside of 14.76%. BankUnited has a consensus target price of $43.40, indicating a potential upside of 14.80%. Given BankUnited's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BankUnited is more favorable than Mercantile Bank.
Summary
BankUnited beats Mercantile Bank on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MBWM) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
