STB vs. MTRO, ARBB, BIRG, CBKD, MFX, NBS, PTSB, LLOY, NWG, and AIBG
Should you be buying Secure Trust Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Secure Trust Bank include Metro Bank (MTRO), Arbuthnot Banking Group (ARBB), Bank of Ireland Group (BIRG), Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. (CBKD), Manx Financial Group (MFX), Nationwide Building Society (NBS), Permanent TSB Group (PTSB), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NatWest Group (NWG), and AIB Group (AIBG). These companies are all part of the "banks - regional" industry.
Secure Trust Bank (LON:STB) and Metro Bank (LON:MTRO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
Secure Trust Bank has a net margin of 18.12% compared to Metro Bank's net margin of -2.86%. Secure Trust Bank's return on equity of 7.81% beat Metro Bank's return on equity.
Secure Trust Bank has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metro Bank has a beta of 2.33, meaning that its stock price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.1% of Secure Trust Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of Metro Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.9% of Secure Trust Bank shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 58.3% of Metro Bank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Secure Trust Bank received 75 more outperform votes than Metro Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.14% of users gave Secure Trust Bank an outperform vote while only 54.43% of users gave Metro Bank an outperform vote.
Secure Trust Bank has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Metro Bank. Secure Trust Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Metro Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Metro Bank had 3 more articles in the media than Secure Trust Bank. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Metro Bank and 0 mentions for Secure Trust Bank. Secure Trust Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Metro Bank's score of -0.11 indicating that Secure Trust Bank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Secure Trust Bank currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,420, suggesting a potential upside of 69.05%. Given Secure Trust Bank's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Secure Trust Bank is more favorable than Metro Bank.
Summary
Secure Trust Bank beats Metro Bank on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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