WABC vs. HOPE, NBHC, FCF, CHCO, SASR, WSBC, NBTB, TBBK, TRMK, and FRME
Should you be buying Westamerica Bancorporation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Westamerica Bancorporation include Hope Bancorp (HOPE), National Bank (NBHC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), City (CHCO), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), WesBanco (WSBC), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Bancorp (TBBK), Trustmark (TRMK), and First Merchants (FRME). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Hope Bancorp (NASDAQ:HOPE) and Westamerica Bancorporation (NASDAQ:WABC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Hope Bancorp received 24 more outperform votes than Westamerica Bancorporation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.47% of users gave Hope Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.32% of users gave Westamerica Bancorporation an outperform vote.
Westamerica Bancorporation has a net margin of 48.35% compared to Westamerica Bancorporation's net margin of 10.80%. Hope Bancorp's return on equity of 21.99% beat Westamerica Bancorporation's return on equity.
Hope Bancorp has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westamerica Bancorporation has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hope Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Westamerica Bancorporation pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Hope Bancorp pays out 56.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westamerica Bancorporation pays out 29.7% 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. Westamerica Bancorporation has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Hope Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $11.83, indicating a potential upside of 8.26%. Westamerica Bancorporation has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 6.21%. Given Westamerica Bancorporation's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Hope Bancorp is more favorable than Westamerica Bancorporation.
In the previous week, Hope Bancorp had 5 more articles in the media than Westamerica Bancorporation. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hope Bancorp and 3 mentions for Westamerica Bancorporation. Westamerica Bancorporation's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Hope Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Hope Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
84.0% of Hope Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Westamerica Bancorporation shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Hope Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Westamerica Bancorporation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Westamerica Bancorporation has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hope Bancorp. Westamerica Bancorporation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hope Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hope Bancorp beats Westamerica Bancorporation on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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