UBFO vs. MCB, PGY, EQBK, VEL, FSBC, LPRO, SMBC, SPFI, LDI, and QD
Should you be buying United Security Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Security Bancshares include Metropolitan Bank (MCB), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), Equity Bancshares (EQBK), Velocity Financial (VEL), Five Star Bancorp (FSBC), Open Lending (LPRO), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), South Plains Financial (SPFI), loanDepot (LDI), and Qudian (QD). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
United Security Bancshares vs.
United Security Bancshares (NASDAQ:UBFO) and Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
United Security Bancshares has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, United Security Bancshares and United Security Bancshares both had 1 articles in the media. Metropolitan Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat United Security Bancshares' score of 0.14 indicating that Metropolitan Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Metropolitan Bank has a consensus target price of $74.25, indicating a potential upside of 21.83%. Given Metropolitan Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than United Security Bancshares.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than United Security Bancshares. United Security Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Metropolitan Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Metropolitan Bank received 100 more outperform votes than United Security Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.36% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 41.51% of users gave United Security Bancshares an outperform vote.
United Security Bancshares has a net margin of 25.78% compared to Metropolitan Bank's net margin of 12.47%. United Security Bancshares' return on equity of 13.96% beat Metropolitan Bank's return on equity.
30.9% of United Security Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.1% of United Security Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats United Security Bancshares on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:UBFO) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
