CSTR vs. MCB, SMMF, MCBC, RBB, EBTC, CZNC, SONA, OSBC, SBSI, and VBTX
Should you be buying CapStar Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CapStar Financial include Metropolitan Bank (MCB), Summit Financial Group (SMMF), Macatawa Bank (MCBC), RBB Bancorp (RBB), Enterprise Bancorp (EBTC), Citizens & Northern (CZNC), Southern National Bancorp of Virginia (SONA), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), and Veritex (VBTX).
Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) and CapStar Financial (NASDAQ:CSTR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
In the previous week, Metropolitan Bank had 1 more articles in the media than CapStar Financial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Metropolitan Bank and 1 mentions for CapStar Financial. CapStar Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Metropolitan Bank'saverage media sentiment score.
Metropolitan Bank currently has a consensus price target of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 32.35%. CapStar Financial has a consensus price target of $15.75, suggesting a potential downside of 21.64%. Given CapStar Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than CapStar Financial.
CapStar Financial received 181 more outperform votes than Metropolitan Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 57.26% of users gave CapStar Financial an outperform vote.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than CapStar Financial. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CapStar Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.2% of CapStar Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of CapStar Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CapStar Financial has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CapStar Financial has a net margin of 16.17% compared to CapStar Financial's net margin of 15.82%. CapStar Financial's return on equity of 10.71% beat Metropolitan Bank's return on equity.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats CapStar Financial on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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