SHBI vs. CASH, NIC, IREN, CUBI, HUT, PWP, SII, CLBK, MBIN, and BTDR
Should you be buying Shore Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shore Bancshares include Pathward Financial (CASH), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Iris Energy (IREN), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Hut 8 (HUT), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Sprott (SII), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), and Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Shore Bancshares vs.
Pathward Financial (NASDAQ:CASH) and Shore Bancshares (NASDAQ:SHBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
In the previous week, Shore Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than Pathward Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Shore Bancshares and 2 mentions for Pathward Financial. Shore Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Pathward Financial's score of 0.86 indicating that Shore Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pathward Financial received 148 more outperform votes than Shore Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.05% of users gave Pathward Financial an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave Shore Bancshares an outperform vote.
Pathward Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Shore Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Pathward Financial pays out 2.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shore Bancshares pays out 32.2% 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.
92.7% of Pathward Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.8% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Pathward Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Shore Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pathward Financial has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shore Bancshares has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pathward Financial currently has a consensus target price of $92.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.88%. Shore Bancshares has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.10%. Given Shore Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Shore Bancshares is more favorable than Pathward Financial.
Pathward Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Shore Bancshares. Shore Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pathward Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pathward Financial has a net margin of 21.91% compared to Shore Bancshares' net margin of 13.44%. Pathward Financial's return on equity of 22.02% beat Shore Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Pathward Financial beats Shore Bancshares on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SHBI) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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