AMTB vs. BUR, PRK, LU, CLSK, BFH, ENVA, FINV, PPBI, NTB, and FBK
Should you be buying Amerant Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amerant Bancorp include Burford Capital (BUR), Park National (PRK), Lufax (LU), CleanSpark (CLSK), Bread Financial (BFH), Enova International (ENVA), FinVolution Group (FINV), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), and FB Financial (FBK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Amerant Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) and Burford Capital (NYSE:BUR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability and risk.
Amerant Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $24.60, indicating a potential upside of 39.61%. Burford Capital has a consensus target price of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 50.12%. Given Burford Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Burford Capital is more favorable than Amerant Bancorp.
Burford Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Amerant Bancorp. Amerant Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Burford Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amerant Bancorp received 50 more outperform votes than Burford Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.87% of users gave Burford Capital an outperform vote while only 47.76% of users gave Amerant Bancorp an outperform vote.
Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Burford Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Amerant Bancorp pays out -60.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Burford Capital pays out 12.9% 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. Amerant Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burford Capital has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Amerant Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Burford Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Amerant Bancorp and Amerant Bancorp both had 4 articles in the media. Burford Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Amerant Bancorp's score of 0.37 indicating that Burford Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Burford Capital has a net margin of 34.81% compared to Amerant Bancorp's net margin of -8.38%. Burford Capital's return on equity of 8.07% beat Amerant Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Burford Capital beats Amerant Bancorp on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:AMTB) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
