MOFG vs. BANR, FRME, RNST, WSBC, SBCF, NBTB, TRMK, SYBT, EFSC, and OFG
Should you be buying MidWestOne Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MidWestOne Financial Group include Banner (BANR), First Merchants (FRME), Renasant (RNST), WesBanco (WSBC), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Trustmark (TRMK), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), and OFG Bancorp (OFG). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
MidWestOne Financial Group vs.
MidWestOne Financial Group (NASDAQ:MOFG) and Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Banner has a net margin of 20.28% compared to MidWestOne Financial Group's net margin of 9.79%. Banner's return on equity of 10.03% beat MidWestOne Financial Group's return on equity.
MidWestOne Financial Group currently has a consensus target price of $34.67, indicating a potential upside of 8.16%. Banner has a consensus target price of $74.20, indicating a potential upside of 4.82%. Given MidWestOne Financial Group's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe MidWestOne Financial Group is more favorable than Banner.
MidWestOne Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $0.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Banner pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. MidWestOne Financial Group pays out -23.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banner pays out 39.3% 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. MidWestOne Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Banner has higher revenue and earnings than MidWestOne Financial Group. MidWestOne Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banner received 119 more outperform votes than MidWestOne Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.61% of users gave Banner an outperform vote while only 52.32% of users gave MidWestOne Financial Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MidWestOne Financial Group had 1 more articles in the media than Banner. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for MidWestOne Financial Group and 3 mentions for Banner. MidWestOne Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Banner's score of 0.53 indicating that MidWestOne Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
65.4% of MidWestOne Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Banner shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of MidWestOne Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Banner shares are held by 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.
MidWestOne Financial Group has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banner has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Banner beats MidWestOne Financial Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MOFG) was last updated on 2/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
