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SMBK vs. ABCB, BANR, BUSE, FFBC, FMBH, MBWM, OBK, OCFC, PGC, and TOWN

Should you be buying SmartFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartFinancial include Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Banner (BANR), First Busey (BUSE), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Origin Bancorp (OBK), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Peapack-Gladstone Financial (PGC), and Towne Bank (TOWN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

SmartFinancial vs. Its Competitors

SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ:ABCB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and media sentiment.

In the previous week, SmartFinancial had 8 more articles in the media than Ameris Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for SmartFinancial and 7 mentions for Ameris Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat SmartFinancial's score of 0.98 indicating that Ameris Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
SmartFinancial
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ameris Bancorp
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Ameris Bancorp has a net margin of 21.46% compared to SmartFinancial's net margin of 12.67%. Ameris Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat SmartFinancial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
SmartFinancial12.67% 7.33% 0.71%
Ameris Bancorp 21.46%9.57%1.32%

SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameris Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

SmartFinancial currently has a consensus target price of $38.25, suggesting a potential upside of 7.56%. Ameris Bancorp has a consensus target price of $71.43, suggesting a potential upside of 8.80%. Given Ameris Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ameris Bancorp is more favorable than SmartFinancial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
SmartFinancial
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Ameris Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ameris Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of SmartFinancial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Ameris Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Ameris Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than SmartFinancial. Ameris Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SmartFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
SmartFinancial$178.24M3.40$36.14M$2.2615.74
Ameris Bancorp$1.12B4.03$358.68M$5.4012.16

SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Ameris Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. SmartFinancial pays out 14.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameris Bancorp pays out 14.8% 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. SmartFinancial has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Summary

Ameris Bancorp beats SmartFinancial on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SMBK vs. The Competition

MetricSmartFinancialNational commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$605.19M$524.66M$12.32B$9.48B
Dividend Yield0.89%2.79%5.53%3.99%
P/E Ratio16.6210.9719.0619.95
Price / Sales3.402.8826.03102.72
Price / Cash12.6011.2221.8458.97
Price / Book1.311.392.275.90
Net Income$36.14M$27.69M$998.01M$258.42M
7 Day Performance-1.39%0.22%0.79%1.94%
1 Month Performance8.72%4.04%3.81%12.02%
1 Year Performance28.80%11.17%541.45%20.81%

SmartFinancial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SMBK
SmartFinancial
3.161 of 5 stars
$35.56
-1.4%
$36.20
+1.8%
+28.7%$605.19M$178.24M16.62550News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
ABCB
Ameris Bancorp
3.2604 of 5 stars
$66.67
-1.0%
$71.43
+7.1%
+9.0%$4.59B$1.12B12.802,850Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
BANR
Banner
3.5834 of 5 stars
$65.93
-0.2%
$70.17
+6.4%
+8.6%$2.29B$832.99M12.561,956News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
BUSE
First Busey
4.9183 of 5 stars
$24.14
-0.9%
$27.67
+14.6%
-16.2%$2.18B$663.36M22.561,548Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
4.4163 of 5 stars
$24.59
-1.1%
$28.75
+16.9%
-8.8%$2.38B$1.62B9.352,090News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
FMBH
First Mid Bancshares
3.6231 of 5 stars
$38.83
-0.1%
$43.83
+12.9%
-0.3%$932.69M$453.67M11.561,198News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Increase
MBWM
Mercantile Bank
4.0332 of 5 stars
$48.75
+0.3%
$52.83
+8.4%
-0.4%$788.71M$361.89M10.08670Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
OBK
Origin Bancorp
3.4496 of 5 stars
$37.87
-0.7%
$42.20
+11.4%
+1.4%$1.19B$358.20M15.391,010News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
OCFC
OceanFirst Financial
4.3245 of 5 stars
$18.62
-0.3%
$20.67
+11.0%
+0.3%$1.09B$692.36M12.17960News Coverage
Earnings Report
PGC
Peapack-Gladstone Financial
4.3547 of 5 stars
$29.87
+0.3%
$37.33
+25.0%
-4.6%$528.35M$406.92M16.55500News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
TOWN
Towne Bank
3.8196 of 5 stars
$35.78
-0.4%
$40.00
+11.8%
+10.1%$2.69B$1.03B15.162,720News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:SMBK) was last updated on 7/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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