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Bridgewater Bancshares (BWB) Competitors

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$17.00 +0.25 (+1.49%)
Closing price 07/3/2025 01:00 PM Eastern
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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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Customers Bancorp10.51% 11.64% 0.89%
Bridgewater Bancshares 13.27%9.13%0.72%

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Customers Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.56
Bridgewater Bancshares
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Customers Bancorp
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Bridgewater Bancshares
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Customers Bancorp$1.39B1.50$181.47M$3.9716.61
Bridgewater Bancshares$253.27M1.84$32.83M$1.1015.45

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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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BWB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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BWB vs. The Competition

MetricBridgewater BancsharesBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$466.48M$871.09M$12.20B$9.04B
Dividend YieldN/A3.11%5.53%3.99%
P/E Ratio15.4519.4020.0520.24
Price / Sales1.842.3326.04118.06
Price / Cash13.2349.3621.7058.10
Price / Book1.201.132.285.67
Net Income$32.83M$53.76M$1.00B$249.21M
7 Day Performance5.59%4.37%2.25%3.28%
1 Month Performance13.48%6.94%3.69%3.95%
1 Year Performance51.65%29.86%541.99%20.98%

Bridgewater Bancshares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BWB
Bridgewater Bancshares
4.2316 of 5 stars
$17.00
+1.5%
$18.50
+8.8%
+51.7%$466.48M$253.27M15.45250
CUBI
Customers Bancorp
1.6099 of 5 stars
$53.90
+3.7%
$64.00
+18.7%
+37.4%$1.64B$1.39B13.58640News Coverage
PWP
Perella Weinberg Partners
1.1902 of 5 stars
$18.65
+4.8%
$23.00
+23.3%
+27.4%$1.57B$878.04M-43.37600Gap Up
CLBK
Columbia Financial
0.2897 of 5 stars
$14.35
+3.2%
$16.00
+11.5%
+5.6%$1.46B$489.17M-717.50750
MBIN
Merchants Bancorp
3.9324 of 5 stars
$32.11
+2.3%
$47.50
+47.9%
-11.6%$1.44B$1.45B5.90480
WULF
TeraWulf
3.6001 of 5 stars
$3.57
-4.5%
$7.89
+121.0%
-6.0%$1.44B$140.05M-10.826
CMPO
CompoSecure
0.7005 of 5 stars
$14.05
+0.6%
$16.19
+15.2%
+111.9%$1.43B$420.57M-12.771,007Positive News
PGY
Pagaya Technologies
2.0509 of 5 stars
$18.74
+1.5%
$20.50
+9.4%
+66.9%$1.40B$1.03B-3.70800Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
LOB
Live Oak Bancshares
3.9571 of 5 stars
$29.22
+4.9%
$42.25
+44.6%
-3.6%$1.33B$498.34M20.15960News Coverage
VBTX
Veritex
4.2799 of 5 stars
$25.09
+3.3%
$30.25
+20.6%
+36.2%$1.32B$797.62M12.30770Positive News
CCB
Coastal Financial
3.3918 of 5 stars
$92.26
+7.2%
$105.00
+13.8%
+134.6%$1.29B$703.32M27.30380

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This page (NASDAQ:BWB) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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