MNSB vs. SMBK, BTBT, ALRS, CBNK, MPB, BITF, QD, HKD, SHBI, and HONE
Should you be buying MainStreet Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MainStreet Bancshares include SmartFinancial (SMBK), Bit Digital (BTBT), Alerus Financial (ALRS), Capital Bancorp (CBNK), Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB), Bitfarms (BITF), Qudian (QD), AMTD Digital (HKD), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), and HarborOne Bancorp (HONE). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
MainStreet Bancshares vs. Its Competitors
SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and MainStreet Bancshares (NASDAQ:MNSB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. MainStreet Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. SmartFinancial pays out 14.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MainStreet Bancshares pays out -23.3% 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. SmartFinancial has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. MainStreet Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
SmartFinancial has a net margin of 12.67% compared to MainStreet Bancshares' net margin of -7.24%. SmartFinancial's return on equity of 7.33% beat MainStreet Bancshares' return on equity.
58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.3% of MainStreet Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of SmartFinancial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of MainStreet Bancshares shares are owned 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 MainStreet Bancshares. MainStreet Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SmartFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MainStreet Bancshares has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SmartFinancial currently has a consensus price target of $33.70, indicating a potential upside of 7.36%. Given SmartFinancial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe SmartFinancial is more favorable than MainStreet Bancshares.
In the previous week, SmartFinancial had 1 more articles in the media than MainStreet Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for SmartFinancial and 1 mentions for MainStreet Bancshares. MainStreet Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat SmartFinancial's score of 1.75 indicating that MainStreet Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SmartFinancial received 185 more outperform votes than MainStreet Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.96% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave MainStreet Bancshares an outperform vote.
Summary
SmartFinancial beats MainStreet Bancshares on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NASDAQ:MNSB) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
