EBC vs. BKU, CLBK, AX, PFS, TFSL, BRKL, CFFN, CWK, FIHL, and PTY
Should you be buying Eastern Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastern Bankshares include BankUnited (BKU), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Axos Financial (AX), Provident Financial Services (PFS), TFS Financial (TFSL), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Cushman & Wakefield (CWK), Fidelis Insurance (FIHL), and PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) and BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of BankUnited shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of BankUnited shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eastern Bankshares currently has a consensus target price of $15.25, indicating a potential upside of 10.35%. BankUnited has a consensus target price of $30.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.81%. Given Eastern Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Eastern Bankshares is more favorable than BankUnited.
BankUnited received 373 more outperform votes than Eastern Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.51% of users gave BankUnited an outperform vote while only 48.89% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote.
Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BankUnited has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastern Bankshares has a net margin of 49.59% compared to BankUnited's net margin of 8.71%. BankUnited's return on equity of 8.06% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.
Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. BankUnited pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Eastern Bankshares pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BankUnited pays out 50.0% 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.
In the previous week, BankUnited had 6 more articles in the media than Eastern Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for BankUnited and 1 mentions for Eastern Bankshares. BankUnited's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Eastern Bankshares' score of 0.33 indicating that BankUnited is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastern Bankshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BankUnited. Eastern Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BankUnited, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BankUnited beats Eastern Bankshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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