ALRS vs. PPBI, NTB, FBK, IREN, HUT, CASH, NIC, WULF, CUBI, and PWP
Should you be buying Alerus Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alerus Financial include Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), FB Financial (FBK), Iris Energy (IREN), Hut 8 (HUT), Pathward Financial (CASH), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), TeraWulf (WULF), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), and Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Alerus Financial vs. Its Competitors
Pacific Premier Bancorp (NASDAQ:PPBI) and Alerus Financial (NASDAQ:ALRS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Pacific Premier Bancorp received 336 more outperform votes than Alerus Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.52% of users gave Pacific Premier Bancorp an outperform vote while only 22.92% of users gave Alerus Financial an outperform vote.
Pacific Premier Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $27.25, suggesting a potential upside of 28.11%. Alerus Financial has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.63%. Given Pacific Premier Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Pacific Premier Bancorp is more favorable than Alerus Financial.
Pacific Premier Bancorp has a net margin of 17.54% compared to Alerus Financial's net margin of 6.26%. Alerus Financial's return on equity of 7.66% beat Pacific Premier Bancorp's return on equity.
93.1% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.3% of Alerus Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Pacific Premier Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Alerus Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pacific Premier Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Alerus Financial. Pacific Premier Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alerus Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pacific Premier Bancorp has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alerus Financial has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pacific Premier Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Alerus Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pacific Premier Bancorp and 1 mentions for Alerus Financial. Alerus Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Pacific Premier Bancorp's score of 0.94 indicating that Alerus Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pacific Premier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Alerus Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Pacific Premier Bancorp pays out 86.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alerus Financial pays out 68.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alerus Financial has raised its dividend for 25 consecutive years.
Summary
Pacific Premier Bancorp beats Alerus Financial on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Alerus Financial News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for ALRS and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ALRS 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 NASDAQ 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.
Alerus Financial Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
This page (NASDAQ:ALRS) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
Buy ALRS Stock Free ALRS Stock Alerts