NBTB vs. TRMK, CHCO, NWBI, NBHC, FCF, WAL, CFR, BPOP, ZION, and PNFP
Should you be buying NBT Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NBT Bancorp include Trustmark (TRMK), City (CHCO), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), National Bank (NBHC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Cullen/Frost Bankers (CFR), Popular (BPOP), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), and Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Trustmark (NASDAQ:TRMK) and NBT Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBTB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
NBT Bancorp has a net margin of 16.71% compared to NBT Bancorp's net margin of 13.82%. Trustmark's return on equity of 10.20% beat NBT Bancorp's return on equity.
Trustmark currently has a consensus price target of $32.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.08%. NBT Bancorp has a consensus price target of $41.20, indicating a potential upside of 11.08%. Given NBT Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Trustmark is more favorable than NBT Bancorp.
Trustmark has higher revenue and earnings than NBT Bancorp. Trustmark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NBT Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.6% of Trustmark shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.5% of NBT Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Trustmark shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of NBT Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Trustmark received 54 more outperform votes than NBT Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.38% of users gave NBT Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.90% of users gave Trustmark an outperform vote.
Trustmark pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. NBT Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Trustmark pays out 35.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NBT Bancorp pays out 49.4% 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. NBT Bancorp has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. NBT Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Trustmark has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NBT Bancorp has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Trustmark and Trustmark both had 3 articles in the media. NBT Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Trustmark's score of 0.91 indicating that Trustmark is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
NBT Bancorp beats Trustmark on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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