BANF vs. FULT, SFNC, CBU, FFBC, FRME, UMBF, TBBK, WSBC, NBTB, and TRMK
Should you be buying BancFirst stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BancFirst include Fulton Financial (FULT), Simmons First National (SFNC), Community Bank System (CBU), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), First Merchants (FRME), UMB Financial (UMBF), Bancorp (TBBK), WesBanco (WSBC), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), and Trustmark (TRMK). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Fulton Financial (NASDAQ:FULT) and BancFirst (NASDAQ:BANF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
72.0% of Fulton Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.7% of BancFirst shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Fulton Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of BancFirst shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Fulton Financial had 13 more articles in the media than BancFirst. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Fulton Financial and 19 mentions for BancFirst. Fulton Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat BancFirst's score of 0.39 indicating that BancFirst is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fulton Financial received 50 more outperform votes than BancFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.32% of users gave BancFirst an outperform vote while only 46.08% of users gave Fulton Financial an outperform vote.
Fulton Financial presently has a consensus price target of $17.60, indicating a potential upside of 6.34%. BancFirst has a consensus price target of $85.50, indicating a potential downside of 4.12%. Given BancFirst's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Fulton Financial is more favorable than BancFirst.
Fulton Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. BancFirst pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Fulton Financial pays out 42.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BancFirst pays out 28.1% 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. Fulton Financial has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and BancFirst has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years.
Fulton Financial has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BancFirst has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fulton Financial has higher revenue and earnings than BancFirst. Fulton Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BancFirst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BancFirst has a net margin of 26.25% compared to BancFirst's net margin of 18.31%. Fulton Financial's return on equity of 14.85% beat BancFirst's return on equity.
Summary
BancFirst beats Fulton Financial on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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