AMTB vs. DCOM, FBMS, BFC, OCFC, SASR, HAFC, CAC, ALRS, AROW, and SMBK
Should you be buying Amerant Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amerant Bancorp include Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM), First Bancshares (FBMS), Bank First (BFC), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Camden National (CAC), Alerus Financial (ALRS), Arrow Financial (AROW), and SmartFinancial (SMBK).
Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) and Dime Community Bancshares (NASDAQ:DCOM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Dime Community Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than Amerant Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Dime Community Bancshares and 0 mentions for Amerant Bancorp. Dime Community Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Amerant Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Dime Community Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Amerant Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $25.75, suggesting a potential upside of 11.86%. Dime Community Bancshares has a consensus target price of $26.83, suggesting a potential upside of 35.32%. Given Dime Community Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dime Community Bancshares is more favorable than Amerant Bancorp.
Dime Community Bancshares received 157 more outperform votes than Amerant Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.31% of users gave Dime Community Bancshares an outperform vote while only 46.67% of users gave Amerant Bancorp an outperform vote.
Dime Community Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Amerant Bancorp. Dime Community Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amerant Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Dime Community Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Amerant Bancorp pays out 52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dime Community Bancshares pays out 56.2% 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.
42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.3% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.5% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Dime Community Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dime Community Bancshares has a net margin of 11.46% compared to Amerant Bancorp's net margin of 3.51%. Dime Community Bancshares' return on equity of 7.76% beat Amerant Bancorp's return on equity.
Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dime Community Bancshares has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Dime Community Bancshares beats Amerant Bancorp on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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