PEBO vs. ABCB, IBOC, BANF, FULT, TCBI, CATY, FIBK, CBU, FBP, and BKU
Should you be buying Peoples Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Bancorp include Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), International Bancshares (IBOC), BancFirst (BANF), Fulton Financial (FULT), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), Community Bank System (CBU), First BanCorp. (FBP), and BankUnited (BKU). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Peoples Bancorp vs.
Peoples Bancorp (NASDAQ:PEBO) and Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ:ABCB) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Peoples Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $34.25, suggesting a potential upside of 9.42%. Ameris Bancorp has a consensus price target of $69.17, suggesting a potential upside of 6.64%. Given Peoples Bancorp's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Peoples Bancorp is more favorable than Ameris Bancorp.
Peoples Bancorp has a net margin of 20.16% compared to Ameris Bancorp's net margin of 20.08%. Peoples Bancorp's return on equity of 11.84% beat Ameris Bancorp's return on equity.
Ameris Bancorp received 140 more outperform votes than Peoples Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.55% of users gave Ameris Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.99% of users gave Peoples Bancorp an outperform vote.
Ameris Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Peoples Bancorp. Peoples Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameris Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peoples Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Ameris Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Peoples Bancorp pays out 45.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameris Bancorp pays out 16.7% 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.
Peoples Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameris Bancorp has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Peoples Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Ameris Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Peoples Bancorp and 1 mentions for Ameris Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Peoples Bancorp's score of 0.25 indicating that Ameris Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
60.7% of Peoples Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ameris Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Peoples Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Ameris Bancorp shares are owned 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
Ameris Bancorp beats Peoples Bancorp on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PEBO) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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