LBAI vs. SBSI, CTBI, GABC, CNOB, OBNK, RBCAA, UVSP, PEBO, FCBC, and MBWM
Should you be buying Lakeland Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lakeland Bancorp include Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), German American Bancorp (GABC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), Univest Financial (UVSP), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), and Mercantile Bank (MBWM). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Southside Bancshares (NASDAQ:SBSI) and Lakeland Bancorp (NASDAQ:LBAI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
55.7% of Southside Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.6% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Southside Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Southside Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lakeland Bancorp has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Southside Bancshares had 4 more articles in the media than Lakeland Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Southside Bancshares and 2 mentions for Lakeland Bancorp. Southside Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Lakeland Bancorp's score of 0.08 indicating that Lakeland Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Southside Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Lakeland Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Southside Bancshares pays out 53.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lakeland Bancorp pays out 45.3% 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 Lakeland Bancorp has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Southside Bancshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Southside Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $32.67, indicating a potential upside of 15.23%. Lakeland Bancorp has a consensus target price of $14.15, indicating a potential upside of 5.36%. Given Lakeland Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Southside Bancshares is more favorable than Lakeland Bancorp.
Southside Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lakeland Bancorp. Lakeland 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.
Southside Bancshares has a net margin of 19.79% compared to Southside Bancshares' net margin of 16.00%. Lakeland Bancorp's return on equity of 10.80% beat Southside Bancshares' return on equity.
Lakeland Bancorp received 114 more outperform votes than Southside Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.69% of users gave Lakeland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 42.82% of users gave Southside Bancshares an outperform vote.
Summary
Southside Bancshares beats Lakeland Bancorp on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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