MCBS vs. CLSK, BFH, ENVA, PRK, IBTX, PPBI, FBK, IREN, INTR, and LU
Should you be buying MetroCity Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MetroCity Bankshares include CleanSpark (CLSK), Bread Financial (BFH), Enova International (ENVA), Park National (PRK), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), FB Financial (FBK), Iris Energy (IREN), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), and Lufax (LU). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
MetroCity Bankshares vs.
MetroCity Bankshares (NASDAQ:MCBS) and CleanSpark (NASDAQ:CLSK) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
MetroCity Bankshares has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CleanSpark has a beta of 4.24, meaning that its stock price is 324% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CleanSpark had 11 more articles in the media than MetroCity Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for CleanSpark and 0 mentions for MetroCity Bankshares. MetroCity Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat CleanSpark's score of 0.48 indicating that MetroCity Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CleanSpark received 122 more outperform votes than MetroCity Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.68% of users gave CleanSpark an outperform vote while only 43.90% of users gave MetroCity Bankshares an outperform vote.
25.3% of MetroCity Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of CleanSpark shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.5% of MetroCity Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of CleanSpark shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MetroCity Bankshares currently has a consensus target price of $36.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.88%. CleanSpark has a consensus target price of $22.25, suggesting a potential upside of 140.67%. Given CleanSpark's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CleanSpark is more favorable than MetroCity Bankshares.
MetroCity Bankshares has a net margin of 27.33% compared to CleanSpark's net margin of 16.07%. MetroCity Bankshares' return on equity of 15.98% beat CleanSpark's return on equity.
MetroCity Bankshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CleanSpark. MetroCity Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CleanSpark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CleanSpark beats MetroCity Bankshares on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MCBS) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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