LOB vs. BANR, RNST, FBK, HTLF, HTH, PB, SSB, OZK, CADE, and HOMB
Should you be buying Live Oak Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Live Oak Bancshares include Banner (BANR), Renasant (RNST), FB Financial (FBK), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Hilltop (HTH), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), SouthState (SSB), Bank OZK (OZK), Cadence Bank (CADE), and Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Live Oak Bancshares (NASDAQ:LOB) and Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Live Oak Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Banner pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Live Oak Bancshares pays out 6.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banner pays out 39.9% 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.
Live Oak Bancshares has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banner has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Live Oak Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $38.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.70%. Banner has a consensus price target of $51.20, indicating a potential upside of 11.28%. Given Live Oak Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Live Oak Bancshares is more favorable than Banner.
Banner received 69 more outperform votes than Live Oak Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.02% of users gave Banner an outperform vote while only 54.05% of users gave Live Oak Bancshares an outperform vote.
64.0% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Banner shares are held by institutional investors. 23.9% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Banner shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Banner has higher revenue and earnings than Live Oak Bancshares. Banner is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Oak Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Banner had 8 more articles in the media than Live Oak Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Banner and 4 mentions for Live Oak Bancshares. Banner's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Live Oak Bancshares' score of 0.10 indicating that Banner is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banner has a net margin of 21.62% compared to Live Oak Bancshares' net margin of 10.62%. Banner's return on equity of 11.47% beat Live Oak Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
Banner beats Live Oak Bancshares on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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