SBNY vs. HONE, GCBC, SMBC, CATC, MSBI, ATLC, MCBC, SMBK, SHBI, and MPB
Should you be buying Signature Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Signature Bank include HarborOne Bancorp (HONE), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC), Cambridge Bancorp (CATC), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), Atlanticus (ATLC), Macatawa Bank (MCBC), SmartFinancial (SMBK), Shore Bancshares (SHBI), and Mid Penn Bancorp (MPB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
HarborOne Bancorp (NASDAQ:HONE) and Signature Bank (NASDAQ:SBNY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
HarborOne Bancorp has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Signature Bank has a beta of 9.59, indicating that its stock price is 859% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HarborOne Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.09%. Given Signature Bank's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe HarborOne Bancorp is more favorable than Signature Bank.
65.0% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.1% of Signature Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Signature Bank shares are owned by 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.
Signature Bank has higher revenue and earnings than HarborOne Bancorp.
HarborOne Bancorp received 264 more outperform votes than Signature Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.26% of users gave HarborOne Bancorp an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Signature Bank an outperform vote.
HarborOne Bancorp has a net margin of 5.20% compared to HarborOne Bancorp's net margin of 0.00%. Signature Bank's return on equity of 4.58% beat HarborOne Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, HarborOne Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than Signature Bank. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for HarborOne Bancorp and 3 mentions for Signature Bank. Signature Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat HarborOne Bancorp's score of 0.25 indicating that HarborOne Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
HarborOne Bancorp beats Signature Bank on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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