SMBK vs. LU, PWP, LOB, CASH, INTR, NTB, CLBK, MBIN, NIC, and CUBI
Should you be buying SmartFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartFinancial include Lufax (LU), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Pathward Financial (CASH), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), and Customers Bancorp (CUBI). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
SmartFinancial vs.
Lufax (NYSE:LU) and SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
69.1% of Lufax shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of SmartFinancial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lufax pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Lufax pays out -15.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SmartFinancial pays out 16.5% 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. Lufax is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lufax presently has a consensus target price of $3.58, suggesting a potential upside of 49.93%. SmartFinancial has a consensus target price of $29.50, suggesting a potential downside of 6.17%. Given Lufax's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Lufax is more favorable than SmartFinancial.
Lufax has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lufax had 2 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Lufax and 1 mentions for SmartFinancial. SmartFinancial's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Lufax's score of 0.97 indicating that SmartFinancial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lufax has higher revenue and earnings than SmartFinancial. Lufax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SmartFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartFinancial has a net margin of 11.88% compared to Lufax's net margin of -12.75%. SmartFinancial's return on equity of 6.81% beat Lufax's return on equity.
SmartFinancial received 169 more outperform votes than Lufax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.18% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 41.82% of users gave Lufax an outperform vote.
Summary
SmartFinancial beats Lufax on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SMBK) was last updated on 12/24/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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