HomeTrust Bancshares (HTBI) Competitors

Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (NASDAQ:SBCF) and HomeTrust Bancshares (NASDAQ:HTBI) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Is SBCF or HTBI a better dividend stock?

Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. HomeTrust Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida pays out 50.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HomeTrust Bancshares pays out 15.0% 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.

Which has better valuation and earnings, SBCF or HTBI?

Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida has higher revenue and earnings than HomeTrust Bancshares. HomeTrust Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida	$808.99M	2.98	$120.99M	$1.43	19.70
HomeTrust Bancshares	$295.07M	2.17	$54.81M	$3.20	11.42

Which has more risk and volatility, SBCF or HTBI?

Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HomeTrust Bancshares has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts prefer SBCF or HTBI?

Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida presently has a consensus target price of $29.40, indicating a potential upside of 4.37%. HomeTrust Bancshares has a consensus target price of $42.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.28%. Given HomeTrust Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HomeTrust Bancshares is more favorable than Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40
HomeTrust Bancshares	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Is SBCF or HTBI more profitable?

HomeTrust Bancshares has a net margin of 18.57% compared to Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's net margin of 14.95%. HomeTrust Bancshares' return on equity of 10.43% beat Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida	14.95%	5.91%	0.85%
HomeTrust Bancshares	18.57%	10.43%	1.18%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in SBCF or HTBI?

81.8% of Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.9% of HomeTrust Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of HomeTrust Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer SBCF or HTBI?

In the previous week, Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida and Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida both had 1 articles in the media. HomeTrust Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's score of 1.00 indicating that HomeTrust Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida	Positive
HomeTrust Bancshares	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SBCF or HTBI?

Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida received 89 more outperform votes than HomeTrust Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.76% of users gave Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave HomeTrust Bancshares an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida	Outperform Votes 300 59.76%	Underperform Votes 202 40.24%
HomeTrust Bancshares	Outperform Votes 211 55.53%	Underperform Votes 169 44.47%

Summary

Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida and HomeTrust Bancshares tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.