PGC vs. SYBT, OFG, CHCO, FBNC, FCF, LKFN, SRCE, NBHC, STBA, and GABC
Should you be buying Peapack-Gladstone Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peapack-Gladstone Financial include Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), OFG Bancorp (OFG), City (CHCO), First Bancorp (FBNC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), 1st Source (SRCE), National Bank (NBHC), S&T Bancorp (STBA), and German American Bancorp (GABC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial vs.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial (NASDAQ:PGC) and Stock Yards Bancorp (NASDAQ:SYBT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Stock Yards Bancorp has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Stock Yards Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Peapack-Gladstone Financial pays out 10.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stock Yards Bancorp pays out 31.9% 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. Stock Yards Bancorp has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Stock Yards Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Peapack-Gladstone Financial currently has a consensus target price of $39.50, indicating a potential upside of 35.37%. Stock Yards Bancorp has a consensus target price of $69.25, indicating a potential downside of 0.84%. Given Peapack-Gladstone Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Peapack-Gladstone Financial is more favorable than Stock Yards Bancorp.
Stock Yards Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Peapack-Gladstone Financial. Peapack-Gladstone Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stock Yards Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stock Yards Bancorp received 26 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 53.73% of users gave Stock Yards Bancorp an outperform vote.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a net margin of 22.54% compared to Peapack-Gladstone Financial's net margin of 8.11%. Stock Yards Bancorp's return on equity of 12.71% beat Peapack-Gladstone Financial's return on equity.
72.8% of Peapack-Gladstone Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Peapack-Gladstone Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Peapack-Gladstone Financial had 11 more articles in the media than Stock Yards Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Peapack-Gladstone Financial and 2 mentions for Stock Yards Bancorp. Stock Yards Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Peapack-Gladstone Financial's score of 0.89 indicating that Stock Yards Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Stock Yards Bancorp beats Peapack-Gladstone Financial on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PGC) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
