CUBI vs. OZK, CADE, HOMB, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, HWC, COLB, IBOC, and SFBS
Should you be buying Customers Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Customers Bancorp include Bank OZK (OZK), Cadence Bank (CADE), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Hancock Whitney (HWC), Columbia Banking System (COLB), International Bancshares (IBOC), and ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) and Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Customers Bancorp received 179 more outperform votes than Bank OZK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.56% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 46.88% of users gave Bank OZK an outperform vote.
Bank OZK has higher revenue and earnings than Customers Bancorp. Customers Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank OZK, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Bank OZK shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Bank OZK 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.
Bank OZK has a net margin of 28.54% compared to Customers Bancorp's net margin of 16.88%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 18.17% beat Bank OZK's return on equity.
Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank OZK has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Customers Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $61.50, suggesting a potential upside of 35.76%. Bank OZK has a consensus price target of $46.57, suggesting a potential upside of 11.20%. Given Customers Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Customers Bancorp is more favorable than Bank OZK.
In the previous week, Bank OZK had 20 more articles in the media than Customers Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Bank OZK and 7 mentions for Customers Bancorp. Customers Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Bank OZK's score of 0.32 indicating that Customers Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Bank OZK on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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