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Equity Bancshares (EQBK) Competitors

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$41.80 +1.24 (+3.06%)
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EQBK vs. FBK, FHB, DAVE, ENVA, BFH, PRK, BUR, BITF, SII, and PGY

Should you be buying Equity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equity Bancshares include FB Financial (FBK), First Hawaiian (FHB), Dave (DAVE), Enova International (ENVA), Bread Financial (BFH), Park National (PRK), Burford Capital (BUR), Bitfarms (BITF), Sprott (SII), and Pagaya Technologies (PGY). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Equity Bancshares vs. Its Competitors

FB Financial (NYSE:FBK) and Equity Bancshares (NYSE:EQBK) are both banking companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and risk.

FB Financial has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equity Bancshares has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

65.4% of FB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.8% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of FB Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

FB Financial presently has a consensus price target of $60.80, indicating a potential upside of 9.12%. Given FB Financial's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe FB Financial is more favorable than Equity Bancshares.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
FB Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83
Equity Bancshares
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.67

FB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Equity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. FB Financial pays out 35.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equity Bancshares pays out 60.0% 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. FB Financial has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years.

In the previous week, FB Financial had 4 more articles in the media than Equity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for FB Financial and 2 mentions for Equity Bancshares. FB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Equity Bancshares' score of 0.18 indicating that FB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
FB Financial
1 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Equity Bancshares
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

FB Financial has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Equity Bancshares' net margin of 5.01%. Equity Bancshares' return on equity of 12.13% beat FB Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
FB Financial11.73% 10.56% 1.28%
Equity Bancshares 5.01%12.13%1.39%

FB Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Equity Bancshares. FB Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
FB Financial$764.61M3.92$116.04M$2.1426.04
Equity Bancshares$335.67M2.39$62.62M$1.2034.83

Summary

FB Financial beats Equity Bancshares on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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EQBK vs. The Competition

MetricEquity BancsharesState Commercial Banks – Fed Reserve System IndustryFinancial SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$779.48M$1.72B$4.94B$22.01B
Dividend Yield1.78%2.36%4.41%3.57%
P/E Ratio34.8314.6922.6733.18
Price / Sales2.392.321,378.2261.67
Price / Cash9.1511.97127.7624.54
Price / Book1.231.102.164.66
Net Income$62.62M$103.49M$1.22B$1.01B
7 Day Performance4.24%2.73%0.88%2.22%
1 Month Performance1.95%-2.66%0.93%1.17%
1 Year PerformanceN/AN/A38.08%13.47%

Equity Bancshares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EQBK
Equity Bancshares
1.2019 of 5 stars
$41.80
+3.1%
N/AN/A$779.48M$335.67M34.83700
FBK
FB Financial
4.5333 of 5 stars
$55.94
-3.8%
$58.80
+5.1%
+12.4%$3.01B$427.43M28.981,490News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
FHB
First Hawaiian
3.1838 of 5 stars
$23.51
-3.7%
$27.06
+15.1%
-0.8%$2.93B$793.74M12.122,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
DAVE
Dave
2.9016 of 5 stars
$195.07
-5.6%
$274.13
+40.5%
+498.2%$2.63B$347.10M51.61250Trending News
ENVA
Enova International
3.3219 of 5 stars
$104.01
-3.7%
$111.00
+6.7%
+28.8%$2.60B$2.93B11.041,787Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
BFH
Bread Financial
4.1375 of 5 stars
$54.10
-3.1%
$66.20
+22.4%
+27.9%$2.52B$4.80B9.156,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Buyback Announcement
PRK
Park National
2.4865 of 5 stars
$154.46
-2.7%
$177.75
+15.1%
-8.2%$2.48B$543.45M16.591,790Trending News
BUR
Burford Capital
4.5285 of 5 stars
$11.16
-3.4%
$18.00
+61.4%
-22.7%$2.44B$546.09M10.33140Analyst Downgrade
BITF
Bitfarms
1.4962 of 5 stars
$4.20
+0.6%
$3.69
-12.1%
+111.2%$2.36B$192.88M-24.68110Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SII
Sprott
0.9274 of 5 stars
$82.88
+0.1%
N/A+76.8%$2.13B$186.32M42.94170Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
PGY
Pagaya Technologies
3.9506 of 5 stars
$27.19
-10.3%
$34.33
+26.3%
+169.3%$2.08B$1.03B-7.10800News Coverage
Gap Up

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