Customers Bancorp (CUBI) Competitors

UWM (NYSE:UWMC) and Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in UWMC or CUBI?

53.6% of UWM shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 87.5% of UWM shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Customers Bancorp shares are owned 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.

Do analysts rate UWMC or CUBI?

UWM presently has a consensus target price of $6.86, suggesting a potential upside of 61.73%. Customers Bancorp has a consensus target price of $64.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.18%. Given UWM's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe UWM is more favorable than Customers Bancorp.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
UWM	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.29
Customers Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in UWMC or CUBI?

Customers Bancorp received 333 more outperform votes than UWM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.61% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave UWM an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
UWM	Outperform Votes 30 30.00%	Underperform Votes 70 70.00%
Customers Bancorp	Outperform Votes 363 66.61%	Underperform Votes 182 33.39%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, UWMC or CUBI?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
UWM	$1.04B	6.54	-$13.23M	-$0.13	-32.62
Customers Bancorp	$648.24M	2.62	$181.47M	$3.97	13.53

Is UWMC or CUBI more profitable?

Customers Bancorp has a net margin of 13.07% compared to UWM's net margin of 0.00%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 12.29% beat UWM's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
UWM	N/A	-5.79%	-1.04%
Customers Bancorp	13.07%	12.29%	0.93%

Does the media prefer UWMC or CUBI?

In the previous week, Customers Bancorp had 9 more articles in the media than UWM. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Customers Bancorp and 8 mentions for UWM. UWM's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Customers Bancorp's score of 1.01 indicating that UWM is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
UWM	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Customers Bancorp	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, UWMC or CUBI?

UWM has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Customers Bancorp beats UWM on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.