CUBI vs. BANR, EFSC, HTLF, LKFN, OFG, RNST, IBTX, FBNC, MBIN, and LOB
Should you be buying Customers Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Customers Bancorp include Banner (BANR), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), OFG Bancorp (OFG), Renasant (RNST), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), First Bancorp (FBNC), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), and Live Oak Bancshares (LOB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Customers Bancorp (NYSE:CUBI) and Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Customers Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $61.29, indicating a potential upside of 32.45%. Banner has a consensus target price of $51.20, indicating a potential upside of 11.94%. Given Customers Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Customers Bancorp is more favorable than Banner.
Customers Bancorp received 22 more outperform votes than Banner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.50% of users gave Customers Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.23% of users gave Banner an outperform vote.
Banner has a net margin of 21.62% compared to Customers Bancorp's net margin of 17.23%. Customers Bancorp's return on equity of 18.75% beat Banner's return on equity.
In the previous week, Banner had 10 more articles in the media than Customers Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Banner and 12 mentions for Customers Bancorp. Customers Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Banner's score of 0.43 indicating that Customers Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Customers Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Banner. Customers Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.3% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Banner shares are held by institutional investors. 9.4% of Customers Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Banner shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Customers Bancorp has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banner has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Customers Bancorp beats Banner on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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