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AMAL vs. UCB, AVAL, CORZ, BBAR, RIOT, INTR, EBC, FHB, DAVE, and PRK

Should you be buying Amalgamated Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amalgamated Financial include United Community Banks (UCB), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Core Scientific (CORZ), BBVA Banco Frances (BBAR), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Inter & Co. Inc. (INTR), Eastern Bankshares (EBC), First Hawaiian (FHB), Dave (DAVE), and Park National (PRK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Amalgamated Financial vs. Its Competitors

United Community Banks (NYSE:UCB) and Amalgamated Financial (NASDAQ:AMAL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and dividends.

82.3% of United Community Banks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Amalgamated Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of United Community Banks shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Amalgamated Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Amalgamated Financial has a consensus target price of $38.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.20%. Given Amalgamated Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Amalgamated Financial is more favorable than United Community Banks.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
United Community Banks
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Amalgamated Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

United Community Banks pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Amalgamated Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. United Community Banks pays out 45.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Amalgamated Financial pays out 16.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Amalgamated Financial has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Amalgamated Financial has a net margin of 23.99% compared to United Community Banks' net margin of 17.11%. Amalgamated Financial's return on equity of 15.68% beat United Community Banks' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
United Community Banks17.11% 8.77% 1.06%
Amalgamated Financial 23.99%15.68%1.32%

In the previous week, United Community Banks and United Community Banks both had 2 articles in the media. Amalgamated Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat United Community Banks' score of 0.42 indicating that Amalgamated Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
United Community Banks
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Amalgamated Financial
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

United Community Banks has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amalgamated Financial has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

United Community Banks has higher revenue and earnings than Amalgamated Financial. Amalgamated Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Community Banks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
United Community Banks$1.50B2.54$252.40M$2.1114.89
Amalgamated Financial$434.51M2.31$106.43M$3.379.75

Summary

Amalgamated Financial beats United Community Banks on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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.
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AMAL vs. The Competition

MetricAmalgamated FinancialFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$982.85M$1.58B$12.02B$8.93B
Dividend Yield1.74%11.23%5.61%4.13%
P/E Ratio9.0817.6219.9719.90
Price / Sales2.3149.8025.69161.31
Price / Cash8.1211.1421.1757.06
Price / Book1.420.932.265.38
Net Income$106.43M$144.88M$1.00B$248.50M
7 Day Performance7.46%1.91%2.70%2.97%
1 Month Performance9.06%0.92%4.28%6.02%
1 Year Performance22.21%-7.06%540.35%20.39%

Amalgamated Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AMAL
Amalgamated Financial
3.2044 of 5 stars
$32.85
+2.2%
$38.50
+17.2%
+18.8%$982.85M$434.51M9.08380News Coverage
UCB
United Community Banks
N/A$28.64
+2.8%
N/AN/A$3.48B$1.50B13.572,979
AVAL
Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores
N/A$2.86
+0.7%
N/A+32.1%$3.40B$9.07B11.4470,271
CORZ
Core Scientific
1.3005 of 5 stars
$11.35
-4.3%
$18.44
+62.5%
+75.1%$3.38B$410.91M-2.26200
BBAR
BBVA Banco Frances
4.8247 of 5 stars
$16.31
-1.7%
$22.50
+38.0%
+87.4%$3.33B$4.86B9.546,289News Coverage
Options Volume
RIOT
Riot Platforms
1.6981 of 5 stars
$9.27
-3.0%
$17.35
+87.2%
+13.3%$3.31B$376.66M-7.02340Analyst Revision
Gap Up
INTR
Inter & Co. Inc.
2.775 of 5 stars
$7.48
+0.8%
$6.48
-13.4%
+19.8%$3.29B$1.31B18.244,333News Coverage
EBC
Eastern Bankshares
4.5286 of 5 stars
$14.66
+2.4%
$19.25
+31.3%
+13.4%$3.13B$1.09B-22.551,998Positive News
FHB
First Hawaiian
2.3284 of 5 stars
$24.05
+3.0%
$27.29
+13.5%
+24.4%$3.02B$1.17B13.072,000News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
DAVE
Dave
2.6594 of 5 stars
$214.73
+1.8%
$212.33
-1.1%
+766.3%$2.86B$347.10M59.15250Trending News
Analyst Forecast
PRK
Park National
2.1906 of 5 stars
$163.09
+2.3%
$177.75
+9.0%
+21.9%$2.64B$528.91M17.521,790Trending News

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This page (NASDAQ:AMAL) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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