BWB vs. CUBI, PWP, CLBK, MBIN, WULF, CMPO, PGY, LOB, VBTX, and CCB
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), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), TeraWulf (WULF), CompoSecure (CMPO), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Veritex (VBTX), and Coastal Financial (CCB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Bridgewater Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) and Bridgewater Bancshares (NASDAQ:BWB) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Bridgewater Bancshares has a net margin of 13.27% compared to Customers Bancorp's net margin of 10.51%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 11.64% beat Bridgewater Bancshares' return on equity.
Customers Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $64.78, suggesting a potential downside of 1.78%. Bridgewater Bancshares has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.82%. Given Bridgewater Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bridgewater Bancshares is more favorable than Customers Bancorp.
In the previous week, Customers Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Bridgewater Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Customers Bancorp and 6 mentions for Bridgewater Bancshares. Customers Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Bridgewater Bancshares' score of -0.35 indicating that Customers Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Customers Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgewater Bancshares. Bridgewater Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Customers Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgewater Bancshares has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Bridgewater Bancshares on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BWB) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff