EFSC vs. SYBT, LKFN, BANR, BUSE, FBNC, SRCE, TCBK, RNST, STBA, and OFG
Should you be buying Enterprise Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Financial Services include Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Banner (BANR), First Busey (BUSE), First Bancorp (FBNC), 1st Source (SRCE), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), Renasant (RNST), S&T Bancorp (STBA), and OFG Bancorp (OFG). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) and Stock Yards Bancorp (NASDAQ:SYBT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a net margin of 22.86% compared to Enterprise Financial Services' net margin of 20.60%. Stock Yards Bancorp's return on equity of 12.51% beat Enterprise Financial Services' return on equity.
Enterprise Financial Services has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stock Yards Bancorp has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Enterprise Financial Services presently has a consensus price target of $47.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.91%. Stock Yards Bancorp has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.95%. Given Enterprise Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Enterprise Financial Services is more favorable than Stock Yards Bancorp.
Enterprise Financial Services received 68 more outperform votes than Stock Yards Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.88% of users gave Enterprise Financial Services an outperform vote while only 54.06% of users gave Stock Yards Bancorp an outperform vote.
Enterprise Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Stock Yards Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Enterprise Financial Services pays out 21.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stock Yards Bancorp pays out 33.7% 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. Enterprise Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
72.2% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Enterprise Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Stock Yards Bancorp. Enterprise Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stock Yards Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Stock Yards Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Enterprise Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Stock Yards Bancorp and 0 mentions for Enterprise Financial Services. Enterprise Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Stock Yards Bancorp's score of 0.10 indicating that Enterprise Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Enterprise Financial Services beats Stock Yards Bancorp on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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