Head to Head Comparison: Akbank T.A.S. (OTCMKTS:AKBTY) vs. Firstsun Capital Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSUN)

Firstsun Capital Bancorp (NASDAQ:FSUN) and Akbank T.A.S. (OTCMKTS:AKBTY) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Firstsun Capital Bancorp and Akbank T.A.S., as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Firstsun Capital Bancorp	0	0	3	0	3.00
Akbank T.A.S.	0	0	0	0	0.00

Firstsun Capital Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $46.67, indicating a potential upside of 19.20%. Given Firstsun Capital Bancorp’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Firstsun Capital Bancorp is more favorable than Akbank T.A.S..

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Firstsun Capital Bancorp and Akbank T.A.S.”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Firstsun Capital Bancorp	$369.74 million	2.93	$75.63 million	N/A	N/A
Akbank T.A.S.	$17.96 billion	N/A	$1.29 billion	$0.49	8.41

Akbank T.A.S. has higher revenue and earnings than Firstsun Capital Bancorp.

Profitability

This table compares Firstsun Capital Bancorp and Akbank T.A.S.’s 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%
Akbank T.A.S.	7.38%	18.44%	1.77%

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.

About Akbank T.A.S.

Akbank T.A.S., together with its subsidiaries, provides various banking products and services in Turkey and internationally. It operates through Consumer Banking and Private Banking; Commercial Banking, Corporate Banking, and SME Banking; and Treasury, Other, and Unallovated segments. The company’s consumer banking services comprise deposit accounts, retail loans, commercial installment loans, credit cards, insurance products, and asset management services, as well as bank cards, investment funds trading, automatic payment, foreign currency trading, safe deposit box rental, cheques, money transfer, investment banking, and telephone and internet banking. It also offers services to large, medium, and small size corporate and commercial customers that include Turkish Lira (TL) and foreign currency denominated working capital loans financing for investments, foreign trade financing, derivative instruments for hedging purposes of foreign currency and interest risk, letters of credit, foreign currency trading, corporate finance, and deposit and cash management services, as well as project finance loans; and working capital management, delivering cash management services based on customers’ requests, such as collection and payment services, and liquidity and information management. In addition, the company engages in treasury activities consisting of TL and foreign currency spot and forward transactions, treasury and government bonds, Eurobonds, and private sector bond transactions, as well as derivative trading activities; and marketing and pricing activities related to treasury products. Further, it provides financial leasing services, investment and pension funds management, and portfolio management, as well as offers payment services and issues electronic money. Akbank T.A.S. was incorporated in 1948 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.