Comparing 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 peers? We will compare Firstsun Capital Bancorp to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

54.5% of shares of all “National commercial banks” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of Firstsun Capital Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of shares of all “National commercial banks” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Firstsun Capital Bancorp and its peers, 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	1653	9187	7578	330	2.35

Firstsun Capital Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $46.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.21%. As a group, “National commercial banks” companies have a potential upside of 12.82%. Given Firstsun Capital Bancorp’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Firstsun Capital Bancorp is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Firstsun Capital Bancorp and its peers’ 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%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Firstsun Capital Bancorp and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Firstsun Capital Bancorp	$380.04 million	$75.63 million	11.56
Firstsun Capital Bancorp Competitors	$148.96 billion	$1.81 billion	10.94

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

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.