AMTB vs. FBK, FHB, DAVE, ENVA, BFH, PRK, BUR, BITF, SII, and PGY
Should you be buying Amerant Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amerant Bancorp include FB Financial (FBK), First Hawaiian (FHB), Dave (DAVE), Enova International (ENVA), Bread Financial (BFH), Park National (PRK), Burford Capital (BUR), Bitfarms (BITF), Sprott (SII), and Pagaya Technologies (PGY). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Amerant Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
Amerant Bancorp (NYSE:AMTB) and FB Financial (NYSE:FBK) are both banking companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
FB Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Amerant Bancorp. Amerant Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.4% of FB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Amerant Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of FB Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
FB Financial has a consensus price target of $60.80, suggesting a potential upside of 11.21%. Given FB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FB Financial is more favorable than Amerant Bancorp.
Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FB Financial has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. FB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Amerant Bancorp pays out -180.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FB Financial pays out 35.5% 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. FB Financial has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years. Amerant Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Amerant Bancorp had 4 more articles in the media than FB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Amerant Bancorp and 3 mentions for FB Financial. FB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Amerant Bancorp's score of -0.04 indicating that FB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FB Financial has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Amerant Bancorp's net margin of 0.60%. FB Financial's return on equity of 10.56% beat Amerant Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
FB Financial beats Amerant Bancorp on 14 of the 19 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 NYSE 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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This page (NYSE:AMTB) was last updated on 10/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
