EBC vs. BKU, CLBK, AX, TFSL, PFS, BRKL, CFFN, BANC, PJT, and DEI
Should you be buying Eastern Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastern Bankshares include BankUnited (BKU), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Axos Financial (AX), TFS Financial (TFSL), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Banc of California (BANC), PJT Partners (PJT), and Douglas Emmett (DEI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) and BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BankUnited has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eastern Bankshares presently has a consensus price target of $15.25, suggesting a potential upside of 22.69%. BankUnited has a consensus price target of $30.50, suggesting a potential upside of 17.81%. Given Eastern Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Eastern Bankshares is more favorable than BankUnited.
71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of BankUnited shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of BankUnited shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. BankUnited pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Eastern Bankshares pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BankUnited pays out 48.7% 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.
In the previous week, BankUnited had 22 more articles in the media than Eastern Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for BankUnited and 2 mentions for Eastern Bankshares. BankUnited's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Eastern Bankshares' score of 0.00 indicating that BankUnited is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eastern Bankshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BankUnited. Eastern Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BankUnited, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BankUnited has a net margin of 9.19% compared to Eastern Bankshares' net margin of 0.00%. BankUnited's return on equity of 8.38% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.
BankUnited received 373 more outperform votes than Eastern Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.59% of users gave BankUnited an outperform vote while only 48.89% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote.
Summary
BankUnited beats Eastern Bankshares on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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