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Amerant Bancorp (AMTB) Competitors

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$17.03 -0.68 (-3.84%)
As of 10/23/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Amerant Bancorp$330.31M2.15-$15.75M-$0.20-85.15
FB Financial$764.61M3.85$116.04M$2.1425.55

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Amerant Bancorp
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00
FB Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Amerant Bancorp
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
FB Financial
1 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Amerant Bancorp0.60% 7.12% 0.63%
FB Financial 11.73%10.56%1.28%

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

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AMTB vs. The Competition

MetricAmerant BancorpNational Commercial Banks IndustryFinancial SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$739.38M$523.12M$4.86B$21.90B
Dividend Yield1.96%2.63%4.41%3.59%
P/E Ratio-85.1511.1122.5332.78
Price / Sales2.152.721,453.3759.72
Price / Cash12.1211.32127.7424.20
Price / Book0.811.292.144.65
Net Income-$15.75M$23.34M$1.22B$1.01B
7 Day Performance-5.02%-0.79%0.47%1.77%
1 Month Performance-15.44%-4.83%0.53%0.75%
1 Year PerformanceN/A7.78%38.75%12.77%

Amerant Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AMTB
Amerant Bancorp
0.6298 of 5 stars
$17.03
-3.8%
N/AN/A$739.38M$330.31M-85.15680High Trading Volume
FBK
FB Financial
4.3494 of 5 stars
$55.94
-3.8%
$58.80
+5.1%
+12.4%$3.01B$764.61M16.251,490Short Interest ↑
FHB
First Hawaiian
3.432 of 5 stars
$23.51
-3.7%
$27.06
+15.1%
-0.8%$2.93B$1.17B12.112,000
DAVE
Dave
3.3797 of 5 stars
$195.07
-5.6%
$274.13
+40.5%
+498.2%$2.63B$347.10M51.61250Trending News
ENVA
Enova International
3.4502 of 5 stars
$104.01
-3.7%
$111.00
+6.7%
+28.8%$2.60B$2.66B10.111,787News Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
BFH
Bread Financial
3.9564 of 5 stars
$54.10
-3.1%
$66.20
+22.4%
+27.9%$2.52B$4.80B6.566,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Buyback Announcement
Gap Up
PRK
Park National
2.571 of 5 stars
$154.46
-2.7%
$177.75
+15.1%
-8.2%$2.48B$543.45M16.591,790Trending News
BUR
Burford Capital
4.5782 of 5 stars
$11.16
-3.4%
$18.00
+61.4%
-22.7%$2.45B$546.09M10.35140
BITF
Bitfarms
1.7595 of 5 stars
$4.20
+0.6%
$3.69
-12.1%
+111.2%$2.36B$192.88M0.00110Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
SII
Sprott
1.2571 of 5 stars
$82.88
+0.1%
N/A+76.8%$2.13B$178.65M42.85170Positive News
Short Interest ↑
PGY
Pagaya Technologies
3.6206 of 5 stars
$27.19
-10.3%
$34.33
+26.3%
+169.3%$2.08B$1.03B23.85800Positive News

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This page (NYSE:AMTB) was last updated on 10/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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