LOB vs. OZK, BMA, FLG, PFSI, HWC, VLY, SFBS, RIOT, BBAR, and EBC
Should you be buying Live Oak Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Live Oak Bancshares include Bank OZK (OZK), Banco Macro (BMA), Flagstar Financial (FLG), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Hancock Whitney (HWC), Valley National Bancorp (VLY), ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Banco BBVA Argentina (BBAR), and Eastern Bankshares (EBC). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Live Oak Bancshares vs.
Live Oak Bancshares (NASDAQ:LOB) and Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Live Oak Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $44.75, suggesting a potential upside of 40.31%. Bank OZK has a consensus target price of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.37%. Given Live Oak Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Live Oak Bancshares is more favorable than Bank OZK.
Bank OZK has higher revenue and earnings than Live Oak Bancshares. Bank OZK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Live Oak Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bank OZK had 8 more articles in the media than Live Oak Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Bank OZK and 3 mentions for Live Oak Bancshares. Bank OZK's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Live Oak Bancshares' score of 0.43 indicating that Bank OZK is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bank OZK has a net margin of 25.83% compared to Live Oak Bancshares' net margin of 7.10%. Bank OZK's return on equity of 13.90% beat Live Oak Bancshares' return on equity.
Live Oak Bancshares received 91 more outperform votes than Bank OZK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.08% of users gave Live Oak Bancshares an outperform vote while only 45.08% of users gave Bank OZK an outperform vote.
Live Oak Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Bank OZK pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Live Oak Bancshares pays out 8.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank OZK pays out 27.4% 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. Bank OZK has raised its dividend for 29 consecutive years. Bank OZK is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Live Oak Bancshares has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank OZK has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
64.0% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Bank OZK shares are held by institutional investors. 23.9% of Live Oak Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Bank OZK shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Bank OZK beats Live Oak Bancshares on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LOB) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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