FBK vs. UWMC, BSAC, WF, CIB, BMA, OMF, CADE, COOP, QFIN, and UPST
Should you be buying FB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FB Financial include UWM (UWMC), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Woori Financial Group (WF), Bancolombia (CIB), Banco Macro (BMA), OneMain (OMF), Cadence Bank (CADE), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), Qifu Technology (QFIN), and Upstart (UPST). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
FB Financial vs.
UWM (NYSE:UWMC) and FB Financial (NYSE:FBK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
53.6% of UWM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.4% of FB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 94.1% of UWM shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of FB Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
UWM has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FB Financial has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
UWM currently has a consensus price target of $7.39, suggesting a potential upside of 20.70%. FB Financial has a consensus price target of $50.20, suggesting a potential downside of 4.21%. Given UWM's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe UWM is more favorable than FB Financial.
FB Financial has a net margin of 14.40% compared to UWM's net margin of 0.00%. FB Financial's return on equity of 10.38% beat UWM's return on equity.
UWM pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. FB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. UWM pays out -173.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FB Financial pays out 29.7% 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. UWM is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
FB Financial received 217 more outperform votes than UWM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.29% of users gave FB Financial an outperform vote while only 28.72% of users gave UWM an outperform vote.
FB Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than UWM. UWM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FB Financial had 5 more articles in the media than UWM. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for FB Financial and 1 mentions for UWM. FB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat UWM's score of -0.11 indicating that FB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
FB Financial beats UWM on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FBK) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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