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SMBK vs. ABCB, BANR, BUSE, FFBC, FMBH, MBWM, OBK, OCFC, PGC, and TOWN

Should you be buying SmartFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartFinancial include Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Banner (BANR), First Busey (BUSE), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Origin Bancorp (OBK), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Peapack-Gladstone Financial (PGC), and Towne Bank (TOWN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

SmartFinancial vs. Its Competitors

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

In the previous week, Ameris Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than SmartFinancial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ameris Bancorp and 0 mentions for SmartFinancial. Ameris Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat SmartFinancial's score of 0.00 indicating that Ameris Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Ameris Bancorp Positive
SmartFinancial Neutral

Ameris Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Ameris Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $71.43, suggesting a potential upside of 6.14%. SmartFinancial has a consensus price target of $33.70, suggesting a potential downside of 4.23%. Given Ameris Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Ameris Bancorp is more favorable than SmartFinancial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ameris Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
SmartFinancial
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

Ameris Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. SmartFinancial pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Ameris Bancorp pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SmartFinancial pays out 14.2% 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. SmartFinancial has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Ameris Bancorp has a net margin of 21.46% compared to SmartFinancial's net margin of 12.67%. Ameris Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat SmartFinancial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ameris Bancorp21.46% 9.57% 1.32%
SmartFinancial 12.67%7.33%0.71%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ameris Bancorp$1.12B4.13$358.68M$5.4012.46
SmartFinancial$178.24M3.36$36.14M$2.2615.57

91.6% of Ameris Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Ameris Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of SmartFinancial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Ameris Bancorp beats SmartFinancial on 15 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

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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SMBK vs. The Competition

MetricSmartFinancialNational commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$598.85M$583.10M$12.07B$9.11B
Dividend Yield0.90%3.45%5.53%4.02%
P/E Ratio16.4415.7520.0420.25
Price / Sales3.363.0225.5199.65
Price / Cash12.6010.7421.6458.16
Price / Book1.301.242.285.49
Net Income$36.14M$28.87M$992.82M$250.27M
7 Day Performance-2.47%-0.33%-0.23%4.80%
1 Month Performance9.05%2.81%2.76%7.68%
1 Year Performance40.31%15.13%536.06%16.36%

SmartFinancial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SMBK
SmartFinancial
2.8327 of 5 stars
$35.19
-1.3%
$33.70
-4.2%
+38.1%$598.85M$178.24M16.44550
ABCB
Ameris Bancorp
3.0812 of 5 stars
$67.04
-1.0%
$71.43
+6.5%
+23.8%$4.62B$1.12B12.872,850Positive News
BANR
Banner
2.6426 of 5 stars
$67.96
-1.0%
$70.83
+4.2%
+31.3%$2.37B$832.99M13.351,956Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
BUSE
First Busey
4.7789 of 5 stars
$24.00
-1.6%
$27.67
+15.3%
-5.6%$2.18B$663.36M22.431,548News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
4.5652 of 5 stars
$25.49
-1.4%
$28.75
+12.8%
+9.0%$2.48B$1.62B10.582,090Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
FMBH
First Mid Bancshares
3.1817 of 5 stars
$39.01
-1.8%
$43.83
+12.4%
+12.5%$952.60M$453.67M11.611,198
MBWM
Mercantile Bank
3.1942 of 5 stars
$48.96
-1.7%
$52.83
+7.9%
+14.1%$808.68M$361.89M10.16670High Trading Volume
OBK
Origin Bancorp
3.4495 of 5 stars
$37.38
-1.5%
$42.20
+12.9%
+10.9%$1.16B$358.20M15.201,010News Coverage
OCFC
OceanFirst Financial
4.315 of 5 stars
$18.49
-1.5%
$20.67
+11.8%
+8.9%$1.10B$379.09M12.09960Upcoming Earnings
PGC
Peapack-Gladstone Financial
4.3579 of 5 stars
$29.96
-1.4%
$37.33
+24.6%
+25.0%$538.82M$406.92M16.64500
TOWN
Towne Bank
3.7412 of 5 stars
$35.59
-1.1%
$40.00
+12.4%
+21.2%$2.70B$1.03B15.082,720Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:SMBK) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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