MCB vs. OFG, MBIN, FBK, TFIN, RNST, BANR, LKFN, LOB, EFSC, and SYBT
Should you be buying Metropolitan Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metropolitan Bank include OFG Bancorp (OFG), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), FB Financial (FBK), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Renasant (RNST), Banner (BANR), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), and Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
OFG Bancorp (NYSE:OFG) and Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
OFG Bancorp received 104 more outperform votes than Metropolitan Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 65.15% of users gave OFG Bancorp an outperform vote.
92.7% of OFG Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of OFG Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
OFG Bancorp has a net margin of 23.00% compared to OFG Bancorp's net margin of 15.82%. Metropolitan Bank's return on equity of 16.10% beat OFG Bancorp's return on equity.
OFG Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.02%. Metropolitan Bank has a consensus price target of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 51.03%. Given OFG Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than OFG Bancorp.
In the previous week, Metropolitan Bank had 3 more articles in the media than OFG Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Metropolitan Bank and 2 mentions for OFG Bancorp. OFG Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Metropolitan Bank's score of 0.95 indicating that Metropolitan Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OFG Bancorp has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
OFG Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Metropolitan Bank. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OFG Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
OFG Bancorp beats Metropolitan Bank on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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