CTBI vs. SBSI, LBAI, UVSP, FCBC, MBWM, GSBC, GABC, EGBN, QCRH, and CPF Should you be buying Community Trust Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Trust Bancorp include Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Univest Financial (UVSP), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), German American Bancorp (GABC), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), QCR (QCRH), and Central Pacific Financial (CPF). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Southside Bancshares (NASDAQ:SBSI ) and Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Southside Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Community Trust Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southside Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Trust Bancorp received 51 more outperform votes than Southside Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.34% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote while only 42.82% of users gave Southside Bancshares an outperform vote.
Southside Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Southside Bancshares pays out 53.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 42.7% 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. Southside Bancshares has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years and Community Trust Bancorp has increased its dividend for 43 consecutive years.
55.7% of Southside Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Southside Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Community Trust Bancorp has a net margin of 22.64% compared to Community Trust Bancorp's net margin of 19.79%. Southside Bancshares' return on equity of 11.36% beat Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Southside Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than Community Trust Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Southside Bancshares and 1 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp. Southside Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat Community Trust Bancorp's score of 0.08 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Southside Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $32.67, suggesting a potential upside of 15.23%. Community Trust Bancorp has a consensus price target of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.04%. Given Community Trust Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Southside Bancshares is more favorable than Community Trust Bancorp.
Southside Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary Community Trust Bancorp beats Southside Bancshares on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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