NBTB vs. TBBK, WSBC, TRMK, CHCO, FRME, FCF, WABC, NBHC, HOPE, and FFBC Should you be buying NBT Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NBT Bancorp include Bancorp (TBBK), WesBanco (WSBC), Trustmark (TRMK), City (CHCO), First Merchants (FRME), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), National Bank (NBHC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), and First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
NBT Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBTB ) and Bancorp (NASDAQ:TBBK ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
Bancorp received 114 more outperform votes than NBT Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.36% of users gave Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.38% of users gave NBT Bancorp an outperform vote.
58.5% of NBT Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of NBT Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bancorp had 5 more articles in the media than NBT Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Bancorp and 0 mentions for NBT Bancorp. Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat NBT Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NBT Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $41.20, indicating a potential upside of 6.79%. Bancorp has a consensus price target of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 42.48%. Given Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bancorp is more favorable than NBT Bancorp.
NBT Bancorp has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bancorp has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NBT Bancorp. Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NBT Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bancorp has a net margin of 31.40% compared to NBT Bancorp's net margin of 16.71%. Bancorp's return on equity of 26.32% beat NBT Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary Bancorp beats NBT Bancorp on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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