EQBK vs. ACBI, RBNC, CCNE, SPFI, BSRR, ENVA, MBIN, UPST, FBK, and TFIN
Should you be buying Equity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equity Bancshares include Atlantic Capital Bancshares (ACBI), Reliant Bancorp (RBNC), CNB Financial (CCNE), South Plains Financial (SPFI), Sierra Bancorp (BSRR), Enova International (ENVA), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Upstart (UPST), FB Financial (FBK), and Triumph Financial (TFIN).
Atlantic Capital Bancshares (NASDAQ:ACBI) and Equity Bancshares (NASDAQ:EQBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
88.9% of Atlantic Capital Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.8% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Atlantic Capital Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Equity Bancshares had 10 more articles in the media than Atlantic Capital Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Equity Bancshares and 0 mentions for Atlantic Capital Bancshares. Equity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Atlantic Capital Bancshares' score of -0.02 indicating that Atlantic Capital Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Atlantic Capital Bancshares has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equity Bancshares has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Atlantic Capital Bancshares received 114 more outperform votes than Equity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 48.42% of users gave Equity Bancshares an outperform vote while only 48.37% of users gave Atlantic Capital Bancshares an outperform vote.
Atlantic Capital Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Equity Bancshares. Atlantic Capital Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Equity Bancshares has a consensus price target of $39.00, suggesting a potential downside of 6.20%. Given Atlantic Capital Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Equity Bancshares is more favorable than Atlantic Capital Bancshares.
Atlantic Capital Bancshares has a net margin of 40.79% compared to Atlantic Capital Bancshares' net margin of 3.75%. Equity Bancshares' return on equity of 14.23% beat Atlantic Capital Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Atlantic Capital Bancshares beats Equity Bancshares on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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