FBK vs. MBIN, OFG, TFIN, RNST, HTLF, IBTX, TOWN, BANR, LKFN, and LOB
Should you be buying FB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FB Financial include Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), OFG Bancorp (OFG), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Renasant (RNST), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), TowneBank (TOWN), Banner (BANR), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), and Live Oak Bancshares (LOB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:MBIN) and FB Financial (NYSE:FBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. FB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Merchants Bancorp pays out 5.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FB Financial pays out 28.6% 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. Merchants Bancorp has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and FB Financial has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
24.6% of Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.4% of FB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.7% of Merchants Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of FB Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Merchants Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than FB Financial. Merchants Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FB Financial received 38 more outperform votes than Merchants Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.65% of users gave Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.90% of users gave FB Financial an outperform vote.
Merchants Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $55.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.67%. FB Financial has a consensus target price of $39.43, indicating a potential upside of 0.63%. Given FB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Merchants Bancorp is more favorable than FB Financial.
In the previous week, Merchants Bancorp had 15 more articles in the media than FB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Merchants Bancorp and 3 mentions for FB Financial. FB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Merchants Bancorp's score of 0.64 indicating that Merchants Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Merchants Bancorp has a net margin of 23.55% compared to Merchants Bancorp's net margin of 14.90%. FB Financial's return on equity of 26.65% beat Merchants Bancorp's return on equity.
Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FB Financial has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Merchants Bancorp beats FB Financial on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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