OBK vs. SFBS, RIOT, BBAR, EBC, AX, UCB, IFS, ASB, CORZ, and FHB
Should you be buying Origin Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Origin Bancorp include ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Banco BBVA Argentina (BBAR), Eastern Bankshares (EBC), Axos Financial (AX), United Community Banks (UCB), Intercorp Financial Services (IFS), Associated Banc (ASB), Core Scientific (CORZ), and First Hawaiian (FHB). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Origin Bancorp vs.
Origin Bancorp (NASDAQ:OBK) and ServisFirst Bancshares (NYSE:SFBS) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Origin Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. ServisFirst Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Origin Bancorp pays out 24.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ServisFirst Bancshares pays out 32.2% 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. Origin Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ServisFirst Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than Origin Bancorp. Origin Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ServisFirst Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Origin Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $43.40, suggesting a potential upside of 13.09%. ServisFirst Bancshares has a consensus target price of $93.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.18%. Given Origin Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Origin Bancorp is more favorable than ServisFirst Bancshares.
In the previous week, ServisFirst Bancshares had 7 more articles in the media than Origin Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ServisFirst Bancshares and 2 mentions for Origin Bancorp. ServisFirst Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Origin Bancorp's score of 0.33 indicating that ServisFirst Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Origin Bancorp has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, ServisFirst Bancshares has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ServisFirst Bancshares received 215 more outperform votes than Origin Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.95% of users gave Origin Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.79% of users gave ServisFirst Bancshares an outperform vote.
ServisFirst Bancshares has a net margin of 23.16% compared to Origin Bancorp's net margin of 12.34%. ServisFirst Bancshares' return on equity of 14.81% beat Origin Bancorp's return on equity.
54.7% of Origin Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Origin Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of ServisFirst Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ServisFirst Bancshares beats Origin Bancorp on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:OBK) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
