BWB vs. CUBI, PWP, CLBK, HUT, BTDR, LX, MBIN, IREN, SUPV, and TFIN
Should you be buying Bridgewater Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bridgewater Bancshares include Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Hut 8 (HUT), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), LexinFintech (LX), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Iris Energy (IREN), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), and Triumph Financial (TFIN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Bridgewater Bancshares vs.
Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) and Bridgewater Bancshares (NASDAQ:BWB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Customers Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $64.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.66%. Bridgewater Bancshares has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.32%. Given Customers Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Customers Bancorp is more favorable than Bridgewater Bancshares.
Customers Bancorp received 221 more outperform votes than Bridgewater Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.61% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.20% of users gave Bridgewater Bancshares an outperform vote.
Customers Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgewater Bancshares. Customers Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgewater Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Customers Bancorp had 16 more articles in the media than Bridgewater Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Customers Bancorp and 1 mentions for Bridgewater Bancshares. Customers Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Bridgewater Bancshares' score of 0.93 indicating that Customers Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.8% of Bridgewater Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.3% of Bridgewater Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgewater Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Customers Bancorp has a net margin of 13.07% compared to Bridgewater Bancshares' net margin of 12.96%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 12.29% beat Bridgewater Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Bridgewater Bancshares on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Bridgewater Bancshares News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for BWB and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding {thisCompany.Symbol} 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.
Bridgewater Bancshares Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
This page (NASDAQ:BWB) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
