EBMT vs. HONE, GNTY, YRD, RHLD, PFIS, BHB, MCVT, UNTY, ACNB, and FFWM
Should you be buying Eagle Bancorp Montana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bancorp Montana include HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Yirendai (YRD), Resolute Holdings Management (RHLD), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Bar Harbor Bankshares (BHB), Mill City Ventures III (MCVT), Unity Bancorp (UNTY), ACNB (ACNB), and First Foundation (FFWM). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Eagle Bancorp Montana vs. Its Competitors
HarborOne Bancorp (NASDAQ:HONE) and Eagle Bancorp Montana (NASDAQ:EBMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and media sentiment.
65.0% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HarborOne Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given HarborOne Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe HarborOne Bancorp is more favorable than Eagle Bancorp Montana.
HarborOne Bancorp has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bancorp Montana has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HarborOne Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Eagle Bancorp Montana pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. HarborOne Bancorp pays out 55.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Bancorp Montana pays out 36.3% 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. HarborOne Bancorp has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Eagle Bancorp Montana has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Eagle Bancorp Montana is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
HarborOne Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bancorp Montana. Eagle Bancorp Montana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HarborOne Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HarborOne Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Eagle Bancorp Montana. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for HarborOne Bancorp and 1 mentions for Eagle Bancorp Montana. HarborOne Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Eagle Bancorp Montana's score of 0.50 indicating that HarborOne Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eagle Bancorp Montana has a net margin of 10.09% compared to HarborOne Bancorp's net margin of 8.43%. Eagle Bancorp Montana's return on equity of 7.10% beat HarborOne Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
HarborOne Bancorp beats Eagle Bancorp Montana on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EBMT) was last updated on 9/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
