STB vs. MTRO, ARBB, BIRG, CBKD, MFX, NBS, PTSB, LLOY, NWG, and AIBG
Should you be buying Secure Trust Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Secure Trust Bank include Metro Bank (MTRO), Arbuthnot Banking Group (ARBB), Bank of Ireland Group (BIRG), Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. (CBKD), Manx Financial Group (MFX), Nationwide Building Society (NBS), Permanent TSB Group (PTSB), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), and AIB Group (AIBG). These companies are all part of the "banks - regional" industry.
Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) and Secure Trust Bank (LON:STB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
Metro Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Secure Trust Bank. Metro Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Trust Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Metro Bank has a beta of 2.13, suggesting that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Secure Trust Bank has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Secure Trust Bank has a consensus target price of GBX 1,420, indicating a potential upside of 65.12%. Given Metro Bank's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Secure Trust Bank is more favorable than Metro Bank.
33.3% of Metro Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Secure Trust Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of Metro Bank shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.6% of Secure Trust Bank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Secure Trust Bank received 74 more outperform votes than Metro Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.49% of users gave Secure Trust Bank an outperform vote while only 54.43% of users gave Metro Bank an outperform vote.
Secure Trust Bank has a net margin of 17.14% compared to Secure Trust Bank's net margin of 4.79%. Metro Bank's return on equity of 7.86% beat Secure Trust Bank's return on equity.
In the previous week, Secure Trust Bank had 1 more articles in the media than Metro Bank. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Secure Trust Bank and 0 mentions for Metro Bank. Metro Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Secure Trust Bank's score of 0.00 indicating that Secure Trust Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Secure Trust Bank beats Metro Bank on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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