CVBF vs. BOH, INDB, PPBI, CATY, SBCF, TOWN, FIBK, FHB, TCBI, and RNST
Should you be buying CVB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVB Financial include Bank of Hawaii (BOH), Independent Bank (INDB), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), TowneBank (TOWN), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), First Hawaiian (FHB), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), and Renasant (RNST).
Bank of Hawaii (NYSE:BOH) and CVB Financial (NASDAQ:CVBF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Bank of Hawaii currently has a consensus target price of $52.20, indicating a potential downside of 10.92%. CVB Financial has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.29%. Given Bank of Hawaii's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CVB Financial is more favorable than Bank of Hawaii.
In the previous week, Bank of Hawaii had 4 more articles in the media than CVB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Bank of Hawaii and 27 mentions for CVB Financial. Bank of Hawaii's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat CVB Financial's score of 0.15 indicating that CVB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CVB Financial received 57 more outperform votes than Bank of Hawaii when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.97% of users gave CVB Financial an outperform vote while only 49.20% of users gave Bank of Hawaii an outperform vote.
CVB Financial has a net margin of 30.93% compared to CVB Financial's net margin of 15.91%. CVB Financial's return on equity of 13.25% beat Bank of Hawaii's return on equity.
82.2% of Bank of Hawaii shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.2% of CVB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Bank of Hawaii shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of CVB Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CVB Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Bank of Hawaii. CVB Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank of Hawaii, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank of Hawaii has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVB Financial has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank of Hawaii pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. CVB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Bank of Hawaii pays out 72.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CVB Financial pays out 52.6% 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. CVB Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
CVB Financial beats Bank of Hawaii on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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