CUBI vs. BPOP, SSB, PB, WTFC, CADE, HOMB, OZK, FFIN, UBSI, and GBCI
Should you be buying Customers Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Customers Bancorp include Popular (BPOP), SouthState (SSB), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Cadence Bank (CADE), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), Bank OZK (OZK), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), United Bankshares (UBSI), and Glacier Bancorp (GBCI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) and Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Popular shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Popular shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Customers Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $62.88, suggesting a potential downside of 5.01%. Popular has a consensus price target of $105.22, suggesting a potential upside of 1.54%. Given Popular's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Popular is more favorable than Customers Bancorp.
In the previous week, Popular had 13 more articles in the media than Customers Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Popular and 17 mentions for Customers Bancorp. Popular's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Customers Bancorp's score of 0.53 indicating that Popular is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Popular has higher revenue and earnings than Customers Bancorp. Customers Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Popular, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Popular has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Customers Bancorp has a net margin of 16.88% compared to Popular's net margin of 12.20%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 18.17% beat Popular's return on equity.
Popular received 97 more outperform votes than Customers Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.69% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 65.36% of users gave Popular an outperform vote.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Popular on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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