Both in Banking & Credit

Merchants Bancorp vs First Busey

Over the past year MBIN returned +69.7% and BUSE returned +29.6%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.61.

MBIN +69.7% BUSE +29.6%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricMBINBUSE
Price$53.43$29.37
Market cap$2.45B$2.42B
Today+3.09%+1.64%
1 month+7.0%−0.1%
6 months+14.5%+9.9%
Year to date+56.9%+23.4%
1 year+70.3%+29.4%
Revenue growth (YoY)−4.3%−8.1%
Gross margin53.6%73.2%
Net margin20.0%21.8%
P/E (TTM)10.7×11.4×
Price / sales1.8×2.2×
Net cash-$1.16B$3.46B
Dividend yield0.82%3.54%
Volatility (60d)22.7%16.8%
Short % of float8.5%6.9%
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Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).