NBTB vs. TRMK, CHCO, NWBI, NBHC, FCF, WAL, CFR, BPOP, ZION, and PNFP
Should you be buying NBT Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NBT Bancorp include Trustmark (TRMK), City (CHCO), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), National Bank (NBHC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Popular (BPOP), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), and Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
NBT Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBTB) and Trustmark (NASDAQ:TRMK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
NBT Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $41.20, indicating a potential upside of 10.81%. Trustmark has a consensus target price of $32.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.35%. Given Trustmark's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Trustmark is more favorable than NBT Bancorp.
NBT Bancorp has a net margin of 16.71% compared to Trustmark's net margin of 13.82%. NBT Bancorp's return on equity of 10.20% beat Trustmark's return on equity.
Trustmark received 54 more outperform votes than NBT Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.38% of users gave NBT Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.90% of users gave Trustmark an outperform vote.
Trustmark has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NBT Bancorp. Trustmark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NBT Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NBT Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Trustmark pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. NBT Bancorp pays out 49.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trustmark pays out 35.8% 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.
NBT Bancorp has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trustmark has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Trustmark had 3 more articles in the media than NBT Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Trustmark and 1 mentions for NBT Bancorp. NBT Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Trustmark's score of 1.11 indicating that NBT Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
58.5% of NBT Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.6% of Trustmark shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of NBT Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Trustmark shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
NBT Bancorp beats Trustmark on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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