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SWKH vs. AMTB, ESQ, MCBS, BFST, MCB, EQBK, XYF, IBCP, VEL, and SMBC

Should you be buying SWK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SWK include Amerant Bancorp (AMTB), Esquire Financial (ESQ), MetroCity Bankshares (MCBS), Business First Bancshares (BFST), Metropolitan Bank (MCB), Equity Bancshares (EQBK), X Financial (XYF), Independent Bank (IBCP), Velocity Financial (VEL), and Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

SWK vs.

SWK (NASDAQ:SWKH) and Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Amerant Bancorp has a consensus target price of $24.60, suggesting a potential upside of 45.39%. Given Amerant Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amerant Bancorp is more favorable than SWK.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
SWK
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Amerant Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

In the previous week, Amerant Bancorp had 8 more articles in the media than SWK. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Amerant Bancorp and 2 mentions for SWK. SWK's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Amerant Bancorp's score of 0.13 indicating that SWK is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
SWK Neutral
Amerant Bancorp Neutral

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
SWK$44.99M3.62$15.89M$1.1811.25
Amerant Bancorp$317.91M2.23-$15.75M-$0.60-28.20

Amerant Bancorp received 55 more outperform votes than SWK when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave SWK an outperform vote while only 47.76% of users gave Amerant Bancorp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SWKOutperform Votes
9
50.00%
Underperform Votes
9
50.00%
Amerant BancorpOutperform Votes
64
47.76%
Underperform Votes
70
52.24%

SWK has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

SWK has a net margin of 26.51% compared to Amerant Bancorp's net margin of -8.38%. Amerant Bancorp's return on equity of 6.36% beat SWK's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
SWK26.51% 5.07% 4.40%
Amerant Bancorp -8.38%6.36%0.51%

99.3% of SWK shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of SWK shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

SWK and Amerant Bancorp tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SWKH vs. The Competition

MetricSWKbusiness credit IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$162.72M$7.71B$11.11B$7.93B
Dividend YieldN/A3.24%5.77%4.23%
P/E Ratio14.285.3422.1018.54
Price / Sales3.625.1926.31103.30
Price / Cash9.2435.6217.6034.62
Price / Book0.590.382.674.25
Net Income$15.89M$800.83M$1.03B$248.18M
7 Day Performance-10.09%-5.76%0.77%1.25%
1 Month Performance-23.33%-21.31%-0.17%3.76%
1 Year Performance-23.85%-28.20%538.56%5.28%

SWK Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SWKH
SWK
1.5114 of 5 stars
$13.28
-5.7%
N/A-18.7%$162.72M$44.99M14.2840Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
AMTB
Amerant Bancorp
3.0739 of 5 stars
$16.96
+0.9%
$25.60
+50.9%
-22.0%$710.96M$317.91M-29.75680Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
ESQ
Esquire Financial
2.4936 of 5 stars
$84.15
-1.3%
$88.00
+4.6%
+76.2%$709.55M$124.82M16.31110Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
News Coverage
MCBS
MetroCity Bankshares
3.3085 of 5 stars
$27.82
+0.8%
$34.00
+22.2%
+20.0%$706.71M$143.02M11.08220
BFST
Business First Bancshares
4.0768 of 5 stars
$23.08
+1.5%
$31.00
+34.3%
+14.2%$682.52M$270.37M10.21750Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
MCB
Metropolitan Bank
3.3959 of 5 stars
$61.17
+0.5%
$78.13
+27.7%
+56.3%$676.91M$280.79M10.33240Insider Trade
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
3.2967 of 5 stars
$38.45
+0.8%
$46.60
+21.2%
+15.6%$673.26M$225.03M9.66700Positive News
XYF
X Financial
2.0755 of 5 stars
$13.55
-1.5%
N/A+265.0%$662.95M$2.56B3.58420
IBCP
Independent Bank
3.1692 of 5 stars
$30.81
-0.7%
$36.67
+19.0%
+22.8%$646.18M$215.80M9.75920Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
VEL
Velocity Financial
1.7961 of 5 stars
$17.69
-0.5%
$21.50
+21.5%
+4.1%$645.35M$211.74M9.56220Earnings Report
News Coverage
SMBC
Southern Missouri Bancorp
4.3397 of 5 stars
$52.63
-0.2%
$66.33
+26.0%
+31.3%$629.40M$171.80M11.49540Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑

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This page (NASDAQ:SWKH) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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