SMBK vs. BANR, BUSE, CCNE, FFBC, FMBH, MBWM, OBK, OCFC, TCBK, and TOWN
Should you be buying SmartFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartFinancial include Banner (BANR), First Busey (BUSE), CNB Financial (CCNE), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Origin Bancorp (OBK), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), and Towne Bank (TOWN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
SmartFinancial vs. Its Competitors
SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
SmartFinancial presently has a consensus price target of $38.25, suggesting a potential upside of 3.73%. Banner has a consensus price target of $70.17, suggesting a potential upside of 4.32%. Given Banner's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Banner is more favorable than SmartFinancial.
58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Banner shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of SmartFinancial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Banner shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Banner has higher revenue and earnings than SmartFinancial. Banner is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SmartFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Banner pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. SmartFinancial pays out 13.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banner pays out 36.6% 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.
In the previous week, Banner had 7 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Banner and 1 mentions for SmartFinancial. SmartFinancial's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Banner's score of 1.14 indicating that SmartFinancial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banner has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Banner has a net margin of 21.15% compared to SmartFinancial's net margin of 12.67%. Banner's return on equity of 10.06% beat SmartFinancial's return on equity.
Summary
Banner beats SmartFinancial on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:SMBK) was last updated on 8/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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