Financial Comparison: GBank Financial (GBFH) vs. Its Peers

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

47.5% of shares of all “Banks” companies are held by institutional investors. 32.4% of GBank Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of shares of all “Banks” companies 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.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares GBank Financial and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GBank Financial	$109.61 million	$20.93 million	15.57
GBank Financial Competitors	$9.83 billion	$2.39 billion	22.45

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.

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	7359	29671	27082	1356	2.34

GBank Financial presently has a consensus price target of $37.33, suggesting a potential upside of 87.32%. As a group, “Banks” companies have a potential upside of 10.58%. Given GBank Financial’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GBank Financial is more favorable than its peers.

Risk & Volatility

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

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	14.93%	9.46%	0.92%

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.