FSBC vs. MCB, HONE, FMNB, WASH, CCBG, MCBC, THFF, HTBK, MSBI, and SPFI
Should you be buying Five Star Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Five Star Bancorp include Metropolitan Bank (MCB), HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), Farmers National Banc (FMNB), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Macatawa Bank (MCBC), First Financial (THFF), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), and South Plains Financial (SPFI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) and Five Star Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
Metropolitan Bank currently has a consensus price target of $56.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.17%. Five Star Bancorp has a consensus price target of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.04%. Given Five Star Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than Five Star Bancorp.
79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Five Star Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.6% of Five Star Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Five Star Bancorp has a net margin of 23.84% compared to Five Star Bancorp's net margin of 15.82%. Metropolitan Bank's return on equity of 16.12% beat Five Star Bancorp's return on equity.
Metropolitan Bank received 113 more outperform votes than Five Star Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 61.06% of users gave Five Star Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Five Star Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Metropolitan Bank. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Five Star Bancorp and 0 mentions for Metropolitan Bank. Five Star Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Metropolitan Bank'saverage media sentiment score.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Five Star Bancorp. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Five Star Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five Star Bancorp has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats Five Star Bancorp on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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