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Stellarone (STEL) Competitors

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STEL vs. HOMB, COLB, FFIN, UBSI, GBCI, FNB, ABCB, IBOC, BANF, and TCBI

Should you be buying Stellarone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stellarone include Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), Columbia Banking System (COLB), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), United Bankshares (UBSI), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), F.N.B. (FNB), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), International Bancshares (IBOC), BancFirst (BANF), and Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.

Stellarone vs.

Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (NYSE:HOMB) and Stellarone (NASDAQ:STEL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.

In the previous week, Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) had 7 more articles in the media than Stellarone. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) and 0 mentions for Stellarone. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Stellarone's score of 0.00 indicating that Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) Very Positive
Stellarone Neutral

Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stellarone has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) currently has a consensus target price of $32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.74%. Stellarone has a consensus target price of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.89%. Given Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) is more favorable than Stellarone.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Stellarone
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Stellarone pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) pays out 38.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stellarone pays out 25.5% 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. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) received 426 more outperform votes than Stellarone when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.24% of users gave Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) an outperform vote while only 56.20% of users gave Stellarone an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)Outperform Votes
503
60.24%
Underperform Votes
332
39.76%
StellaroneOutperform Votes
77
56.20%
Underperform Votes
60
43.80%

Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a net margin of 27.39% compared to Stellarone's net margin of 18.80%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s return on equity of 10.31% beat Stellarone's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)27.39% 10.31% 1.77%
Stellarone 18.80%7.43%1.09%

Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has higher revenue and earnings than Stellarone. Stellarone is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)$1.00B5.58$402.24M$2.0213.93
Stellarone$625.45M2.35$117.61M$2.2012.50

67.3% of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of Stellarone shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Stellarone shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) beats Stellarone on 18 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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STEL vs. The Competition

MetricStellaroneNational commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.55B$22.20B$11.31B$7.84B
Dividend Yield1.93%3.39%5.39%4.01%
P/E Ratio12.5012.3722.4918.74
Price / Sales2.352.8525.6090.77
Price / Cash10.3311.1617.6234.64
Price / Book0.911.162.674.23
Net Income$117.61M$2.17B$1.04B$247.47M

Stellarone Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
STEL
Stellarone
1.3705 of 5 stars
$27.50
-0.8%
$29.67
+7.9%
+12.9%$1.55B$625.45M12.501,025Gap Up
HOMB
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)
3.6827 of 5 stars
$28.70
+2.5%
$32.00
+11.5%
+14.5%$5.70B$1.00B14.212,770News Coverage
Positive News
COLB
Columbia Banking System
4.5666 of 5 stars
$25.67
+3.8%
$31.25
+21.7%
+27.8%$5.38B$1.93B10.115,114News Coverage
Positive News
FFIN
First Financial Bankshares
3.7403 of 5 stars
$36.81
+3.1%
$40.25
+9.3%
+9.1%$5.26B$537.04M23.601,500Positive News
UBSI
United Bankshares
4.3808 of 5 stars
$35.30
+2.7%
$41.88
+18.6%
-3.9%$5.06B$1.03B12.882,635News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
GBCI
Glacier Bancorp
2.8893 of 5 stars
$45.72
+3.2%
$51.50
+12.6%
+8.8%$5.03B$810.03M27.383,358Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
Positive News
FNB
F.N.B.
4.6819 of 5 stars
$13.91
+2.8%
$18.50
+33.0%
-4.9%$5.00B$1.60B11.044,228Positive News
Gap Up
ABCB
Ameris Bancorp
4.1158 of 5 stars
$59.41
+2.8%
$70.50
+18.7%
+18.1%$4.10B$1.10B11.402,765News Coverage
Positive News
IBOC
International Bancshares
3.0661 of 5 stars
$65.64
+3.5%
N/A+11.7%$4.08B$833.64M10.212,200Positive News
BANF
BancFirst
2.1178 of 5 stars
$112.52
+2.7%
$113.33
+0.7%
+24.4%$3.74B$631.45M17.472,109Short Interest ↑
Positive News
TCBI
Texas Capital Bancshares
3.0445 of 5 stars
$77.65
+2.3%
$79.47
+2.3%
+19.9%$3.58B$932.35M60.661,818News Coverage
Positive News
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This page (NASDAQ:STEL) was last updated on 3/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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