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Metropolitan Bank (MCB) Competitors

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$77.46 -1.48 (-1.88%)
Closing price 09/12/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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MCB vs. EBC, EWBC, HTBK, OBK, OCFC, SBCF, VBTX, ZION, KEY, and WAL

Should you be buying Metropolitan Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Metropolitan Bank include Eastern Bankshares (EBC), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), Origin Bancorp (OBK), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida (SBCF), Veritex (VBTX), Zions Bancorporation, N.A. (ZION), KeyCorp (KEY), and Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Metropolitan Bank vs. Its Competitors

Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) and Metropolitan Bank (NYSE:MCB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.

Eastern Bankshares presently has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.01%. Metropolitan Bank has a consensus target price of $82.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.73%. Given Eastern Bankshares' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Eastern Bankshares is more favorable than Metropolitan Bank.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Eastern Bankshares
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Metropolitan Bank
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Eastern Bankshares and Eastern Bankshares both had 3 articles in the media. Metropolitan Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Eastern Bankshares' score of 1.15 indicating that Metropolitan Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Eastern Bankshares
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Metropolitan Bank
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Metropolitan Bank has a net margin of 13.68% compared to Eastern Bankshares' net margin of -6.49%. Metropolitan Bank's return on equity of 10.69% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Eastern Bankshares-6.49% 7.35% 1.05%
Metropolitan Bank 13.68%10.69%1.03%

Eastern Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Metropolitan Bank pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Eastern Bankshares pays out -167.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Metropolitan Bank pays out 9.7% 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. Eastern Bankshares has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Eastern Bankshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Eastern Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Metropolitan Bank. Eastern Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Metropolitan Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Eastern Bankshares$1.09B3.38$119.56M-$0.31-56.10
Metropolitan Bank$492.21M1.64$66.69M$6.1712.55

Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metropolitan Bank has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Eastern Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Metropolitan Bank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Metropolitan Bank beats Eastern Bankshares on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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MCB vs. The Competition

MetricMetropolitan BankBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$807.09M$936.02M$12.64B$21.49B
Dividend Yield0.77%3.00%5.40%3.49%
P/E Ratio12.5516.82245.4529.75
Price / Sales1.642.3430.8351.60
Price / Cash13.5416.6819.2518.13
Price / Book1.191.162.314.63
Net Income$66.69M$54.35M$1.01B$999.94M
7 Day Performance-2.82%-0.50%0.75%0.62%
1 Month Performance6.18%4.13%3.28%4.34%
1 Year Performance52.65%14.26%543.66%16.38%

Metropolitan Bank Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MCB
Metropolitan Bank
3.3579 of 5 stars
$77.46
-1.9%
$82.67
+6.7%
+52.7%$807.09M$492.21M12.55240Positive News
High Trading Volume
EBC
Eastern Bankshares
4.318 of 5 stars
$17.42
+0.7%
$20.00
+14.8%
+6.9%$3.66B$1.09B-56.191,998Positive News
EWBC
East West Bancorp
3.7674 of 5 stars
$109.61
+1.9%
$116.08
+5.9%
+37.6%$14.83B$4.53B12.803,100High Trading Volume
HTBK
Heritage Commerce
3.7042 of 5 stars
$10.30
+0.8%
$10.67
+3.6%
+2.1%$627.99M$251.45M16.35330Positive News
OBK
Origin Bancorp
3.6454 of 5 stars
$38.95
+0.8%
$43.20
+10.9%
+9.2%$1.22B$347.73M15.831,010Positive News
OCFC
OceanFirst Financial
4.3966 of 5 stars
$18.27
-0.4%
$20.67
+13.1%
+2.5%$1.05B$692.36M12.96960
SBCF
Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida
2.7988 of 5 stars
$31.08
-0.9%
$29.40
-5.4%
+13.9%$2.75B$555.30M19.071,504Positive News
VBTX
Veritex
4.3121 of 5 stars
$34.39
+0.5%
$33.25
-3.3%
+38.7%$1.87B$797.62M16.38770Positive News
ZION
Zions Bancorporation, N.A.
4.224 of 5 stars
$57.02
+0.9%
$60.78
+6.6%
+25.7%$8.34B$4.99B10.429,406Positive News
KEY
KeyCorp
4.591 of 5 stars
$19.17
+1.2%
$19.39
+1.2%
+18.6%$20.77B$9.24B-273.7916,753Positive News
High Trading Volume
WAL
Western Alliance Bancorporation
4.986 of 5 stars
$89.39
-1.4%
$97.79
+9.4%
+8.2%$10.00B$5.08B11.753,524Positive News

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This page (NYSE:MCB) was last updated on 9/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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