MCBC vs. STXB, MCB, CSTR, SMMF, OSBC, HTLF, IBTX, MBIN, OFG, and TFIN
Should you be buying Macatawa Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Macatawa Bank include Spirit of Texas Bancshares (STXB), Metropolitan Bank (MCB), CapStar Financial (CSTR), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), OFG Bancorp (OFG), and Triumph Financial (TFIN).
Spirit of Texas Bancshares (NASDAQ:STXB) and Macatawa Bank (NASDAQ:MCBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Spirit of Texas Bancshares has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Macatawa Bank has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
39.9% of Spirit of Texas Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.5% of Macatawa Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.2% of Spirit of Texas Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Macatawa Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Macatawa Bank has a net margin of 30.56% compared to Macatawa Bank's net margin of 30.12%. Spirit of Texas Bancshares' return on equity of 14.73% beat Macatawa Bank's return on equity.
Macatawa Bank received 107 more outperform votes than Spirit of Texas Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.96% of users gave Spirit of Texas Bancshares an outperform vote while only 58.16% of users gave Macatawa Bank an outperform vote.
Macatawa Bank has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spirit of Texas Bancshares. Spirit of Texas Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Macatawa Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Macatawa Bank had 3 more articles in the media than Spirit of Texas Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Macatawa Bank and 0 mentions for Spirit of Texas Bancshares. Spirit of Texas Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Macatawa Bank's score of 0.00 indicating that Macatawa Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spirit of Texas Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Macatawa Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Spirit of Texas Bancshares pays out 20.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Macatawa Bank pays out 30.0% 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.
Macatawa Bank has a consensus target price of $12.83, indicating a potential downside of 6.53%. Given Spirit of Texas Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Macatawa Bank is more favorable than Spirit of Texas Bancshares.
Summary
Macatawa Bank beats Spirit of Texas Bancshares on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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