CTBI vs. ABTX, LBAI, OBNK, BMTC, GSBC, UCBI, FULT, FBP, BANF, and FIBK
Should you be buying Community Trust Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Trust Bancorp include Allegiance Bancshares (ABTX), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Bryn Mawr Bank (BMTC), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), United Community Banks (UCBI), Fulton Financial (FULT), First BanCorp. (FBP), BancFirst (BANF), and First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) and Allegiance Bancshares (NASDAQ:ABTX) 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, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Allegiance Bancshares has a net margin of 28.90% compared to Community Trust Bancorp's net margin of 22.64%. Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity of 11.36% beat Allegiance Bancshares' return on equity.
Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allegiance Bancshares has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.6% of Allegiance Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Allegiance Bancshares shares are owned 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.
Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Allegiance Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Allegiance Bancshares pays out 15.1% 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.
In the previous week, Community Trust Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Allegiance Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp and 0 mentions for Allegiance Bancshares. Community Trust Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Allegiance Bancshares' score of 0.15 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Community Trust Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.37%. Given Community Trust Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Community Trust Bancorp is more favorable than Allegiance Bancshares.
Allegiance Bancshares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Community Trust Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiance Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Trust Bancorp received 18 more outperform votes than Allegiance Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.34% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.30% of users gave Allegiance Bancshares an outperform vote.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats Allegiance Bancshares on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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