BIRG vs. MTRO, CYBG, NTN, JPEI, AQX, ATS, DEVC, MIX, DDV1, and KAY
Should you be buying Bank of Ireland Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of Ireland Group include Metro Bank (MTRO), VanEck Bionic Engineering UCITS ETF (CYBG), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), JPMorgan Elect plc - Managed Income (JPEI), Aquis Exchange (AQX), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Draper Esprit VCT (DEVC), Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (MIX), Downing One VCT (DDV1), and Kings Arms Yard VCT (KAY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Bank of Ireland Group vs.
Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) and Bank of Ireland Group (LON:BIRG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
47.3% of Metro Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.0% of Bank of Ireland Group shares are held by institutional investors. 27.2% of Metro Bank shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Bank of Ireland Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Metro Bank currently has a consensus target price of GBX 73.50, suggesting a potential downside of 30.66%. Given Metro Bank's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Metro Bank is more favorable than Bank of Ireland Group.
Bank of Ireland Group has a net margin of 29.19% compared to Metro Bank's net margin of -15.03%. Bank of Ireland Group's return on equity of 7.71% beat Metro Bank's return on equity.
In the previous week, Metro Bank had 1 more articles in the media than Bank of Ireland Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Metro Bank and 1 mentions for Bank of Ireland Group. Bank of Ireland Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Metro Bank's score of -0.30 indicating that Bank of Ireland Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Metro Bank has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of Ireland Group has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Metro Bank received 148 more outperform votes than Bank of Ireland Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.22% of users gave Bank of Ireland Group an outperform vote while only 54.57% of users gave Metro Bank an outperform vote.
Bank of Ireland Group has higher revenue and earnings than Metro Bank. Metro Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of Ireland Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bank of Ireland Group beats Metro Bank on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BIRG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Bank of Ireland Group Competitors List
