CTBI vs. BANF, TCBI, FULT, CATY, FIBK, CBU, FBP, HTLF, INDB, and BOH
Should you be buying Community Trust Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Trust Bancorp include BancFirst (BANF), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), Fulton Financial (FULT), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), Community Bank System (CBU), First BanCorp. (FBP), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Independent Bank (INDB), and Bank of Hawaii (BOH). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Community Trust Bancorp vs.
Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) and BancFirst (NASDAQ:BANF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
BancFirst has a net margin of 23.52% compared to Community Trust Bancorp's net margin of 22.02%. BancFirst's return on equity of 14.21% beat Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity.
Community Trust Bancorp received 6 more outperform votes than BancFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.01% of users gave BancFirst an outperform vote while only 52.56% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote.
BancFirst has higher revenue and earnings than Community Trust Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BancFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.7% of BancFirst shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of BancFirst shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Community Trust Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than BancFirst. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp and 3 mentions for BancFirst. Community Trust Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat BancFirst's score of 1.66 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BancFirst has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. BancFirst pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 40.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BancFirst pays out 28.6% 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. Community Trust Bancorp has increased its dividend for 44 consecutive years and BancFirst has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years. Community Trust Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Community Trust Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $57.67, indicating a potential upside of 11.80%. BancFirst has a consensus price target of $113.33, indicating a potential upside of 1.39%. Given Community Trust Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Community Trust Bancorp is more favorable than BancFirst.
Summary
BancFirst beats Community Trust Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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