Financial Survey: GBank Financial (GBFH) versus Its Competitors

GBank Financial (NASDAQ:GBFH) is one of 925 publicly-traded companies in the “Banks” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare GBank Financial to related companies based on the strength of its earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for GBank Financial and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GBank Financial	1	1	4	0	2.50
GBank Financial Competitors	7361	29674	27085	1357	2.34

GBank Financial presently has a consensus price target of $37.33, suggesting a potential upside of 85.37%. As a group, “Banks” companies have a potential upside of 10.30%. Given GBank Financial’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe GBank Financial is more favorable than its competitors.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

47.5% of shares of all “Banks” companies are owned by institutional investors. 32.4% of GBank Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of shares of all “Banks” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares GBank Financial and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GBank Financial	15.44%	14.42%	1.75%
GBank Financial Competitors	14.93%	9.46%	0.92%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares GBank Financial and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GBank Financial	$109.61 million	$20.93 million	15.73
GBank Financial Competitors	$50.30 billion	$2.39 billion	22.47

GBank Financial’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than GBank Financial. GBank Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk & Volatility

GBank Financial has a beta of 0.03, suggesting that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GBank Financial’s competitors have a beta of 0.59, suggesting that their average stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

GBank Financial beats its competitors on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

GBank Financial Company Profile

GBank Financial Holdings Inc. operates as a bank holding company for GBank which provides banking services to commercial and consumer customers principally in Nevada. The company offers business and personal checking and savings accounts. GBank Financial Holdings Inc. is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.