MCB vs. HONE, CCBG, FMNB, MCBC, SPFI, WASH, THFF, HTBK, MSBI, and CATC
Should you be buying Metropolitan Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metropolitan Bank include HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Farmers National Banc (FMNB), Macatawa Bank (MCBC), South Plains Financial (SPFI), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), First Financial (THFF), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), and Cambridge Bancorp (CATC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) and HarborOne Bancorp (NASDAQ:HONE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
In the previous week, HarborOne Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Metropolitan Bank. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for HarborOne Bancorp and 0 mentions for Metropolitan Bank. HarborOne Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Metropolitan Bank's score of 0.45 indicating that HarborOne Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HarborOne Bancorp has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HarborOne Bancorp received 82 more outperform votes than Metropolitan Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 62.41% of users gave HarborOne Bancorp an outperform vote.
Metropolitan Bank has a net margin of 15.82% compared to HarborOne Bancorp's net margin of 5.38%. Metropolitan Bank's return on equity of 10.57% beat HarborOne Bancorp's return on equity.
Metropolitan Bank presently has a consensus target price of $56.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.80%. Given Metropolitan Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than HarborOne Bancorp.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than HarborOne Bancorp. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HarborOne Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.0% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats HarborOne Bancorp on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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