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PCB Bancorp (PCB) Competitors

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$22.26 +0.35 (+1.60%)
As of 07/3/2025 01:04 PM Eastern
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PCB vs. ABCB, AUB, BUSE, CATY, FFBC, ONB, QCRH, STBA, WSFS, and NIC

Should you be buying PCB Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PCB Bancorp include Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), First Busey (BUSE), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Old National Bancorp (ONB), QCR (QCRH), S&T Bancorp (STBA), WSFS Financial (WSFS), and Nicolet Bankshares (NIC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

PCB Bancorp vs. Its Competitors

PCB Bancorp (NASDAQ:PCB) and Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ:ABCB) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.

PCB Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Ameris Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. PCB Bancorp pays out 41.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameris Bancorp pays out 14.8% 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. PCB Bancorp has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years. PCB Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PCB Bancorp$191.91M1.66$25.81M$1.9411.47
Ameris Bancorp$1.12B4.15$358.68M$5.4012.54

Ameris Bancorp has a net margin of 21.46% compared to PCB Bancorp's net margin of 14.81%. Ameris Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat PCB Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PCB Bancorp14.81% 9.54% 0.96%
Ameris Bancorp 21.46%9.57%1.32%

PCB Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameris Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Ameris Bancorp had 5 more articles in the media than PCB Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ameris Bancorp and 0 mentions for PCB Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat PCB Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Ameris Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
PCB Bancorp Neutral
Ameris Bancorp Positive

PCB Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.17%. Ameris Bancorp has a consensus target price of $71.43, suggesting a potential upside of 5.45%. Given Ameris Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ameris Bancorp is more favorable than PCB Bancorp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PCB Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Ameris Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

33.0% of PCB Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ameris Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.0% of PCB Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Ameris Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Ameris Bancorp beats PCB Bancorp on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PCB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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PCB vs. The Competition

MetricPCB BancorpBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$319.95M$2.28B$12.13B$9.05B
Dividend Yield3.58%2.39%5.53%3.99%
P/E Ratio11.4713.5320.0420.23
Price / Sales1.662.5225.67119.26
Price / Cash10.6413.5618.7128.59
Price / Book1.081.382.285.65
Net Income$25.81M$143.71M$998.26M$249.15M
7 Day Performance6.41%3.97%2.25%3.28%
1 Month Performance14.86%5.60%3.69%3.95%
1 Year Performance47.42%31.02%541.99%20.98%

PCB Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PCB
PCB Bancorp
3.1331 of 5 stars
$22.26
+1.6%
$22.00
-1.2%
+47.4%$319.95M$191.91M11.47250
ABCB
Ameris Bancorp
2.6147 of 5 stars
$64.77
-0.2%
$71.43
+10.3%
+38.4%$4.46B$1.12B12.432,850
AUB
Atlantic Union Bankshares
4.487 of 5 stars
$31.36
+0.3%
$39.00
+24.4%
+3.3%$4.47B$857.44M13.691,880Positive News
BUSE
First Busey
4.5736 of 5 stars
$22.89
-1.4%
$27.33
+19.4%
+3.5%$2.08B$663.36M21.391,548Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
CATY
Cathay General Bancorp
3.9036 of 5 stars
$45.53
-0.3%
$50.17
+10.2%
+32.3%$3.20B$1.39B11.501,266News Coverage
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
4.5149 of 5 stars
$24.26
-0.4%
$28.75
+18.5%
+19.1%$2.33B$1.62B10.072,090
ONB
Old National Bancorp
4.9152 of 5 stars
$21.34
-0.1%
$25.90
+21.4%
+26.4%$6.83B$2.96B12.414,066News Coverage
QCRH
QCR
3.9221 of 5 stars
$67.90
-0.1%
$85.33
+25.7%
+27.5%$1.15B$597.39M10.211,013
STBA
S&T Bancorp
3.2294 of 5 stars
$37.82
-0.5%
$41.67
+10.2%
+22.6%$1.46B$564.96M10.901,206Analyst Revision
WSFS
WSFS Financial
4.2264 of 5 stars
$55.00
-0.1%
$62.75
+14.1%
+28.1%$3.12B$1.40B12.362,309News Coverage
Analyst Revision
NIC
Nicolet Bankshares
2.7048 of 5 stars
$123.74
-1.0%
$119.25
-3.6%
+64.4%$1.89B$520.63M14.93860News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:PCB) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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