SMBK vs. MCB, FDBC, PFIS, BCAL, FNLC, CSTR, SFST, HAFC, PLBC, and LCNB
Should you be buying SmartFinancial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartFinancial include Metropolitan Bank (MCB), Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC), Peoples Financial Services (PFIS), Southern California Bancorp (BCAL), First Bancorp (FNLC), CapStar Financial (CSTR), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Plumas Bancorp (PLBC), and LCNB (LCNB).
SmartFinancial (NASDAQ:SMBK) and Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Metropolitan Bank has a net margin of 15.82% compared to SmartFinancial's net margin of 10.65%. Metropolitan Bank's return on equity of 10.71% beat SmartFinancial's return on equity.
SmartFinancial currently has a consensus price target of $25.40, suggesting a potential upside of 21.41%. Metropolitan Bank has a consensus price target of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.73%. Given Metropolitan Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Metropolitan Bank is more favorable than SmartFinancial.
Metropolitan Bank has higher revenue and earnings than SmartFinancial. Metropolitan Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SmartFinancial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of SmartFinancial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.5% of Metropolitan Bank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SmartFinancial received 7 more outperform votes than Metropolitan Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.66% of users gave Metropolitan Bank an outperform vote while only 58.51% of users gave SmartFinancial an outperform vote.
SmartFinancial has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SmartFinancial had 8 more articles in the media than Metropolitan Bank. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for SmartFinancial and 12 mentions for Metropolitan Bank. Metropolitan Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat SmartFinancial's score of 0.21 indicating that Metropolitan Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Metropolitan Bank beats SmartFinancial on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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