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Bar Harbor Bankshares (BHB) Competitors

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$30.35 +0.40 (+1.34%)
As of 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

BHB vs. SII, PGY, VBTX, PWP, MBIN, CLBK, BTDR, CMPO, TFIN, and CCB

Should you be buying Bar Harbor Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bar Harbor Bankshares include Sprott (SII), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), Veritex (VBTX), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), CompoSecure (CMPO), Triumph Financial (TFIN), and Coastal Financial (CCB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Bar Harbor Bankshares vs. Its Competitors

Bar Harbor Bankshares (NYSE:BHB) and Sprott (NYSE:SII) are both small-cap banking companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.

Bar Harbor Bankshares presently has a consensus price target of $34.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.03%. Given Bar Harbor Bankshares' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Bar Harbor Bankshares is more favorable than Sprott.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bar Harbor Bankshares
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Sprott
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

54.5% of Bar Harbor Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of Sprott shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Bar Harbor Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of Sprott shares are owned by 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.

Bar Harbor Bankshares has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprott has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Bar Harbor Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Sprott pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Bar Harbor Bankshares pays out 49.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sprott pays out 62.5% 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. Bar Harbor Bankshares has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years and Sprott has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Bar Harbor Bankshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Sprott has a net margin of 27.53% compared to Bar Harbor Bankshares' net margin of 0.00%. Sprott's return on equity of 15.34% beat Bar Harbor Bankshares' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bar Harbor BanksharesN/A N/A N/A
Sprott 27.53%15.34%12.47%

In the previous week, Bar Harbor Bankshares had 1 more articles in the media than Sprott. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Bar Harbor Bankshares and 5 mentions for Sprott. Bar Harbor Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Sprott's score of 0.32 indicating that Bar Harbor Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Bar Harbor Bankshares
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Sprott
1 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Sprott has higher revenue and earnings than Bar Harbor Bankshares. Bar Harbor Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprott, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bar Harbor Bankshares$147.99M3.14$39.52M$2.5811.76
Sprott$178.65M10.24$49.29M$1.9236.93

Summary

Sprott beats Bar Harbor Bankshares on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BHB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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BHB vs. The Competition

MetricBar Harbor BanksharesState Commercial Banks – Fed Reserve System IndustryFinancial SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$464.87M$464.87M$6.46B$21.11B
Dividend Yield4.15%4.07%4.19%3.60%
P/E Ratio11.7610.6514.0828.44
Price / Sales3.143.091,726.4858.65
Price / CashN/AN/A128.7122.92
Price / BookN/AN/A1.964.69
Net Income$39.52MN/A$1.24B$995.51M
7 Day Performance-3.59%-3.59%0.44%1.65%
1 Month Performance1.03%1.03%3.21%4.54%
1 Year PerformanceN/AN/A25.48%9.99%

Bar Harbor Bankshares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BHB
Bar Harbor Bankshares
2.1993 of 5 stars
$30.35
+1.3%
$34.00
+12.0%
N/A$464.87M$147.99M11.76490News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
SII
Sprott
0.773 of 5 stars
$73.32
+1.2%
N/A+60.4%$1.89B$170.57M38.19170News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
PGY
Pagaya Technologies
2.8899 of 5 stars
$23.53
+0.2%
$22.45
-4.6%
+113.4%$1.78B$1.03B-4.64800
VBTX
Veritex
4.753 of 5 stars
$32.07
+1.0%
$30.92
-3.6%
+31.2%$1.74B$435.91M15.72770Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
PWP
Perella Weinberg Partners
1.0217 of 5 stars
$19.21
+0.5%
$23.33
+21.5%
+13.1%$1.70B$878.04M-44.67600Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
MBIN
Merchants Bancorp
4.2127 of 5 stars
$34.49
+1.6%
$47.50
+37.7%
-32.3%$1.58B$645.08M6.34480News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
CLBK
Columbia Financial
0.8373 of 5 stars
$14.79
+2.2%
$16.00
+8.2%
-22.6%$1.55B$189.02M-739.50750News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
BTDR
Bitdeer Technologies Group
2.9956 of 5 stars
$13.50
+7.6%
$21.00
+55.6%
+51.7%$1.51B$349.78M-3.31211Positive News
CMPO
CompoSecure
0.8855 of 5 stars
$14.59
+2.2%
$16.19
+10.9%
+76.1%$1.49B$420.57M-13.261,007
TFIN
Triumph Financial
2.3604 of 5 stars
$63.58
+2.3%
$68.20
+7.3%
-31.1%$1.49B$487.93M171.841,553Analyst Revision
CCB
Coastal Financial
3.567 of 5 stars
$97.46
+0.2%
$106.25
+9.0%
+96.3%$1.46B$436.55M28.83380News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:BHB) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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