LKFN vs. BPOP, HOMB, COLB, FFIN, GBCI, UBSI, FNB, ABCB, IBOC, and BANF
Should you be buying Lakeland Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lakeland Financial include Popular (BPOP), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), Columbia Banking System (COLB), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), United Bankshares (UBSI), F.N.B. (FNB), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), International Bancshares (IBOC), and BancFirst (BANF). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Lakeland Financial vs.
Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) and Lakeland Financial (NASDAQ:LKFN) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Lakeland Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Popular pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lakeland Financial pays out 55.1% 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. Lakeland Financial has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Lakeland Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Popular has higher revenue and earnings than Lakeland Financial. Popular is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lakeland Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.3% of Popular shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.2% of Lakeland Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Popular shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Lakeland Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lakeland Financial has a net margin of 21.74% compared to Popular's net margin of 14.15%. Lakeland Financial's return on equity of 13.31% beat Popular's return on equity.
Popular received 89 more outperform votes than Lakeland Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.44% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 56.43% of users gave Lakeland Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Popular had 18 more articles in the media than Lakeland Financial. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Popular and 5 mentions for Lakeland Financial. Popular's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Lakeland Financial's score of 1.27 indicating that Popular is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Popular presently has a consensus target price of $113.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.24%. Lakeland Financial has a consensus target price of $70.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.32%. Given Popular's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Popular is more favorable than Lakeland Financial.
Popular has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lakeland Financial has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Popular beats Lakeland Financial on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LKFN) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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