CUBI vs. BANR, LKFN, HTLF, TFIN, IBTX, EFSC, OFG, RNST, MBIN, and LOB
Should you be buying Customers Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Customers Bancorp include Banner (BANR), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), OFG Bancorp (OFG), Renasant (RNST), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), and Live Oak Bancshares (LOB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) and Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability and risk.
Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banner has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Banner shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Banner shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Customers Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Banner. Customers Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Customers Bancorp had 5 more articles in the media than Banner. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Customers Bancorp and 13 mentions for Banner. Banner's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Customers Bancorp's score of 0.64 indicating that Banner is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Customers Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $61.29, indicating a potential upside of 30.90%. Banner has a consensus target price of $51.20, indicating a potential upside of 12.87%. Given Customers Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Customers Bancorp is more favorable than Banner.
Banner has a net margin of 21.62% compared to Customers Bancorp's net margin of 16.88%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 18.62% beat Banner's return on equity.
Customers Bancorp received 22 more outperform votes than Banner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.50% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.23% of users gave Banner an outperform vote.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Banner on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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