EBTC vs. OFG, CHCO, FBNC, FCF, LKFN, SRCE, NBHC, STBA, GABC, and WABC
Should you be buying Enterprise Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Bancorp include OFG Bancorp (OFG), City (CHCO), First Bancorp (FBNC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), 1st Source (SRCE), National Bank (NBHC), S&T Bancorp (STBA), German American Bancorp (GABC), and Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Enterprise Bancorp vs.
OFG Bancorp (NYSE:OFG) and Enterprise Bancorp (NASDAQ:EBTC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
OFG Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Enterprise Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. OFG Bancorp pays out 28.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Bancorp pays out 32.1% 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. OFG Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
OFG Bancorp has a net margin of 22.71% compared to Enterprise Bancorp's net margin of 15.30%. OFG Bancorp's return on equity of 15.80% beat Enterprise Bancorp's return on equity.
OFG Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $50.25, suggesting a potential upside of 22.58%. Given OFG Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe OFG Bancorp is more favorable than Enterprise Bancorp.
92.7% of OFG Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.9% of Enterprise Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of OFG Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.7% of Enterprise Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
OFG Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Enterprise Bancorp. OFG Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enterprise Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OFG Bancorp received 54 more outperform votes than Enterprise Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.85% of users gave OFG Bancorp an outperform vote while only 65.49% of users gave Enterprise Bancorp an outperform vote.
OFG Bancorp has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Bancorp has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Enterprise Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than OFG Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Enterprise Bancorp and 6 mentions for OFG Bancorp. OFG Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Enterprise Bancorp's score of 1.10 indicating that OFG Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
OFG Bancorp beats Enterprise Bancorp on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EBTC) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
