PGC vs. BANR, TRMK, NBTB, EFSC, SYBT, OFG, FBNC, CHCO, LKFN, and FCF
Should you be buying Peapack-Gladstone Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peapack-Gladstone Financial include Banner (BANR), Trustmark (TRMK), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), OFG Bancorp (OFG), First Bancorp (FBNC), City (CHCO), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), and First Commonwealth Financial (FCF). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial vs.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial (NASDAQ:PGC) and Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and community ranking.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Banner pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Peapack-Gladstone Financial pays out 10.8% 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.
Banner has a net margin of 20.28% compared to Peapack-Gladstone Financial's net margin of 8.11%. Banner's return on equity of 10.03% beat Peapack-Gladstone Financial's return on equity.
72.8% of Peapack-Gladstone Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Banner shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Peapack-Gladstone Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Banner shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Banner has higher revenue and earnings than Peapack-Gladstone Financial. Banner is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Peapack-Gladstone Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banner has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial presently has a consensus target price of $39.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.98%. Banner has a consensus target price of $74.20, suggesting a potential upside of 10.29%. Given Peapack-Gladstone Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Peapack-Gladstone Financial is more favorable than Banner.
In the previous week, Banner had 3 more articles in the media than Peapack-Gladstone Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Banner and 1 mentions for Peapack-Gladstone Financial. Banner's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Peapack-Gladstone Financial's score of 1.16 indicating that Banner is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banner received 143 more outperform votes than Peapack-Gladstone Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.49% of users gave Peapack-Gladstone Financial an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Banner an outperform vote.
Summary
Banner beats Peapack-Gladstone Financial on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PGC) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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