VBTX vs. TCBK, SRCE, BUSE, SBSI, EFSC, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, HWC, and COLB
Should you be buying Veritex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veritex include TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), 1st Source (SRCE), First Busey (BUSE), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Hancock Whitney (HWC), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Veritex (NASDAQ:VBTX) and TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Veritex presently has a consensus target price of $24.38, suggesting a potential upside of 19.49%. TriCo Bancshares has a consensus target price of $42.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.29%. Given Veritex's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Veritex is more favorable than TriCo Bancshares.
Veritex pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. TriCo Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Veritex pays out 46.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TriCo Bancshares pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
TriCo Bancshares received 22 more outperform votes than Veritex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.00% of users gave TriCo Bancshares an outperform vote while only 50.67% of users gave Veritex an outperform vote.
88.3% of Veritex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.1% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of Veritex shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Veritex had 5 more articles in the media than TriCo Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Veritex and 3 mentions for TriCo Bancshares. Veritex's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat TriCo Bancshares' score of 1.27 indicating that Veritex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TriCo Bancshares has a net margin of 21.25% compared to Veritex's net margin of 12.47%. TriCo Bancshares' return on equity of 9.75% beat Veritex's return on equity.
TriCo Bancshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Veritex. TriCo Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veritex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Veritex has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TriCo Bancshares has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
TriCo Bancshares beats Veritex on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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