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Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT) Competitors

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$17.50 +0.10 (+0.57%)
Closing price 05/1/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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EBMT vs. SMBK, HKD, HONE, MFH, CBNK, ALRS, GNTY, BCAL, SHBI, and ACNB

Should you be buying Eagle Bancorp Montana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bancorp Montana include SmartFinancial (SMBK), AMTD Digital (HKD), HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), Mercurity Fintech (MFH), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Alerus Financial (ALRS), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), and ACNB (ACNB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Eagle Bancorp Montana vs.

Eagle Bancorp Montana (NASDAQ:EBMT) and SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Eagle Bancorp Montana pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Eagle Bancorp Montana pays out 40.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SmartFinancial pays out 14.2% 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. Eagle Bancorp Montana has increased 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.

35.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of SmartFinancial shares are held by 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.

SmartFinancial has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bancorp Montana. Eagle Bancorp Montana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SmartFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Eagle Bancorp Montana$79.65M1.75$9.78M$1.4112.41
SmartFinancial$178.24M2.91$36.14M$2.2613.47

Eagle Bancorp Montana currently has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential downside of 22.86%. SmartFinancial has a consensus target price of $33.70, indicating a potential upside of 10.70%. Given SmartFinancial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SmartFinancial is more favorable than Eagle Bancorp Montana.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Eagle Bancorp Montana
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
SmartFinancial
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

SmartFinancial has a net margin of 12.67% compared to Eagle Bancorp Montana's net margin of 8.02%. SmartFinancial's return on equity of 7.33% beat Eagle Bancorp Montana's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Eagle Bancorp Montana8.02% 5.68% 0.46%
SmartFinancial 12.67%7.33%0.71%

SmartFinancial received 29 more outperform votes than Eagle Bancorp Montana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.96% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 43.50% of users gave Eagle Bancorp Montana an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Eagle Bancorp MontanaOutperform Votes
164
43.50%
Underperform Votes
213
56.50%
SmartFinancialOutperform Votes
193
57.96%
Underperform Votes
140
42.04%

In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp Montana had 10 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Eagle Bancorp Montana and 1 mentions for SmartFinancial. Eagle Bancorp Montana's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat SmartFinancial's score of 0.27 indicating that Eagle Bancorp Montana is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Eagle Bancorp Montana
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
SmartFinancial
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Eagle Bancorp Montana has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

SmartFinancial beats Eagle Bancorp Montana on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EBMT vs. The Competition

MetricEagle Bancorp MontanaState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$139.60M$3.08B$11.10B$7.93B
Dividend Yield3.33%3.86%5.77%4.22%
P/E Ratio14.1123.5922.1018.54
Price / Sales1.753.0126.31103.30
Price / Cash7.6010.6317.6034.62
Price / Book0.831.162.674.25
Net Income$9.78M$372.21M$1.03B$248.18M
7 Day Performance2.52%1.21%0.72%1.03%
1 Month Performance3.80%-1.21%-0.58%2.70%
1 Year Performance35.24%16.16%537.58%4.05%

Eagle Bancorp Montana Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EBMT
Eagle Bancorp Montana
3.9494 of 5 stars
$17.50
+0.6%
$13.50
-22.9%
+35.9%$139.60M$79.65M14.11350Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
SMBK
SmartFinancial
3.1513 of 5 stars
$30.11
+0.1%
$33.70
+11.9%
+43.7%$512.48M$178.24M14.07550
HKD
AMTD Digital
1.0598 of 5 stars
$2.07
-3.1%
N/A-42.5%$508.69M$23.45M0.0050
HONE
HarborOne Bancorp
3.6763 of 5 stars
$11.31
+0.1%
$13.00
+14.9%
+8.0%$502.85M$167.94M17.14640Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
MFH
Mercurity Fintech
0.7005 of 5 stars
$7.75
+17.1%
N/A+453.1%$471.43M$716,863.000.0010News Coverage
Positive News
CBNK
Capital Bancorp
4.6484 of 5 stars
$28.28
+0.6%
$34.50
+22.0%
+58.2%$471.06M$183.73M13.28270Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
Positive News
ALRS
Alerus Financial
4.6952 of 5 stars
$17.76
+0.2%
$23.40
+31.8%
+1.6%$453.08M$215.87M17.41840Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
GNTY
Guaranty Bancshares
1.8843 of 5 stars
$39.52
-0.5%
$41.50
+5.0%
+33.6%$448.57M$118.37M14.37470
BCAL
Southern California Bancorp
2.8966 of 5 stars
$13.81
+0.9%
$19.50
+41.2%
+0.3%$447.47M$150.68M72.69204Upcoming Earnings
Buyback Announcement
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
SHBI
Shore Bancshares
4.5533 of 5 stars
$13.14
+0.4%
$20.00
+52.2%
+31.8%$438.53M$201.70M9.88450Earnings Report
News Coverage
Positive News
ACNB
ACNB
3.5462 of 5 stars
$41.49
+1.2%
$48.40
+16.7%
+27.4%$437.43M$116.36M11.12400

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This page (NASDAQ:EBMT) was last updated on 5/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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