CARE vs. SASR, OCFC, BFC, FBMS, AMTB, DCOM, HAFC, CAC, AROW, and SMBK
Should you be buying Carter Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carter Bankshares include Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Bank First (BFC), First Bancshares (FBMS), Amerant Bancorp (AMTB), Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Camden National (CAC), Arrow Financial (AROW), and SmartFinancial (SMBK). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Carter Bankshares (NASDAQ:CARE) and Sandy Spring Bancorp (NASDAQ:SASR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
41.5% of Carter Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.9% of Sandy Spring Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Carter Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Sandy Spring Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Carter Bankshares and Carter Bankshares both had 6 articles in the media. Sandy Spring Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Carter Bankshares' score of 0.08 indicating that Sandy Spring Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carter Bankshares has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sandy Spring Bancorp has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sandy Spring Bancorp received 260 more outperform votes than Carter Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.35% of users gave Sandy Spring Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Carter Bankshares an outperform vote.
Sandy Spring Bancorp has a net margin of 12.74% compared to Carter Bankshares' net margin of 6.11%. Sandy Spring Bancorp's return on equity of 6.65% beat Carter Bankshares' return on equity.
Sandy Spring Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Carter Bankshares. Sandy Spring Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carter Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sandy Spring Bancorp has a consensus target price of $23.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.26%. Given Sandy Spring Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sandy Spring Bancorp is more favorable than Carter Bankshares.
Summary
Sandy Spring Bancorp beats Carter Bankshares on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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