Analyzing Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN) and Its Peers

Firstsun Capital Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSUN) is one of 182 publicly-traded companies in the “National commercial banks” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Firstsun Capital Bancorp to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Firstsun Capital Bancorp and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Firstsun Capital Bancorp	0	0	4	0	3.00
Firstsun Capital Bancorp Competitors	1640	9137	7541	324	2.35

Firstsun Capital Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.41%. As a group, “National commercial banks” companies have a potential upside of 12.81%. Given Firstsun Capital Bancorp’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Firstsun Capital Bancorp is more favorable than its competitors.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

54.5% of shares of all “National commercial banks” companies are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Firstsun Capital Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of shares of all “National commercial banks” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Firstsun Capital Bancorp and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Firstsun Capital Bancorp	$380.04 million	$75.63 million	11.81
Firstsun Capital Bancorp Competitors	$147.05 billion	$1.81 billion	10.93

Firstsun Capital Bancorp’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Firstsun Capital Bancorp. Firstsun Capital Bancorp is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Firstsun Capital Bancorp and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Firstsun Capital Bancorp	13.77%	8.56%	1.07%
Firstsun Capital Bancorp Competitors	15.01%	9.56%	0.97%

About Firstsun Capital Bancorp

FirstSun Capital Bancorp engages in the provision of commercial banking services. It operates through the following segments: Banking, Mortgage Operations, and Corporate. The Banking segment consists of loans and provides deposits and fee-based services to consumer, business, and mortgage lending customers. The Mortgage Operations segment originates, sells, services, and manages market risk from changes in interest rates on one-to-four family residential mortgage loans to sell and hold. The company is founded on November 9, 1981 headquartered in Denver, CO.