Head to Head Contrast: GBank Financial (GBFH) & The Competition

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for GBank Financial and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GBank Financial	1	1	4	0	2.50
GBank Financial Competitors	7366	29717	27121	1362	2.34

GBank Financial presently has a consensus target price of $37.33, suggesting a potential upside of 99.54%. As a group, “Banks” companies have a potential upside of 12.12%. Given GBank Financial’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GBank Financial is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares GBank Financial and its peers’ 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	14.94%	9.46%	0.92%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares GBank Financial and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GBank Financial	$79.73 million	$20.93 million	14.62
GBank Financial Competitors	$53.94 billion	$2.39 billion	22.24

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

Institutional and 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

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 peers 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 peers 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.