Both in Banking & Credit

Esquire Financial Holdings vs Lakeland Financial

Over the past year ESQ returned +34.0% and LKFN returned +9.1%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.56.

ESQ +34.0% LKFN +9.1%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricESQLKFN
Price$126.89$62.84
Market cap$1.54B$1.55B
Today+2.65%+2.57%
1 month+9.0%+8.4%
6 months+16.4%+0.8%
Year to date+24.3%+10.1%
1 year+34.0%+9.1%
Revenue growth (YoY)+18.9%+1.7%
Gross margin88.4%66.6%
Net margin27.2%26.3%
P/E (TTM)29.3×13.7×
Price / sales8.6×3.6×
Net cash$541.6M$1.13B
Dividend yield0.63%3.31%
Volatility (60d)29.2%19.9%
Short % of float18.1%10.1%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).