FOA vs. FBMS, OBK, SII, FSUN, AMAL, OBNK, LX, BFC, ML, and BHRB
Should you be buying Finance of America Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Finance of America Companies include First Bancshares (FBMS), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Sprott (SII), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), LexinFintech (LX), Bank First (BFC), MoneyLion (ML), and Burke & Herbert Financial Services (BHRB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Finance of America Companies vs.
First Bancshares (NASDAQ:FBMS) and Finance of America Companies (NYSE:FOA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
70.0% of First Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of Finance of America Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of First Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.6% of Finance of America Companies 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.
First Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $38.75, indicating a potential upside of 8.71%. Finance of America Companies has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential downside of 12.76%. Given First Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe First Bancshares is more favorable than Finance of America Companies.
First Bancshares has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Finance of America Companies has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, First Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than Finance of America Companies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for First Bancshares and 1 mentions for Finance of America Companies. Finance of America Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat First Bancshares' score of 0.26 indicating that Finance of America Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
First Bancshares received 215 more outperform votes than Finance of America Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.44% of users gave First Bancshares an outperform vote while only 47.37% of users gave Finance of America Companies an outperform vote.
First Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Finance of America Companies. Finance of America Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than First Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Finance of America Companies has a net margin of 18.89% compared to First Bancshares' net margin of 17.25%. First Bancshares' return on equity of 8.19% beat Finance of America Companies' return on equity.
Summary
First Bancshares beats Finance of America Companies on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FOA) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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