BHB vs. SII, PWP, CLBK, MBIN, WULF, CMPO, PGY, CCB, VBTX, and LOB
Should you be buying Bar Harbor Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bar Harbor Bankshares include Sprott (SII), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), TeraWulf (WULF), CompoSecure (CMPO), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), Coastal Financial (CCB), Veritex (VBTX), and Live Oak Bancshares (LOB). 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 superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation and dividends.
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.
54.5% of Bar Harbor Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of Sprott shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Bar Harbor Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of Sprott shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bar Harbor Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Sprott pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Bar Harbor Bankshares pays out 44.9% 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 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.
In the previous week, Bar Harbor Bankshares and Bar Harbor Bankshares both had 1 articles in the media. Sprott's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Bar Harbor Bankshares' score of 0.00 indicating that Sprott is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bar Harbor Bankshares has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprott has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Sprott beats Bar Harbor Bankshares on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BHB) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
