HWC vs. COLB, GBCI, FFIN, UBSI, IBOC, SFBS, ABCB, HOMB, ASB, and UCBI
Should you be buying Hancock Whitney stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hancock Whitney include Columbia Banking System (COLB), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), United Bankshares (UBSI), International Bancshares (IBOC), ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), Associated Banc (ASB), and United Community Banks (UCBI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Hancock Whitney (NASDAQ:HWC) and Columbia Banking System (NASDAQ:COLB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Hancock Whitney has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Columbia Banking System has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hancock Whitney had 8 more articles in the media than Columbia Banking System. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Hancock Whitney and 9 mentions for Columbia Banking System. Columbia Banking System's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Hancock Whitney's score of 0.62 indicating that Columbia Banking System is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
81.2% of Hancock Whitney shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of Columbia Banking System shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Hancock Whitney shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Columbia Banking System shares are owned 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.
Hancock Whitney pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Columbia Banking System pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Hancock Whitney pays out 28.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Columbia Banking System pays out 61.8% 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.
Hancock Whitney has a net margin of 19.07% compared to Columbia Banking System's net margin of 16.52%. Hancock Whitney's return on equity of 11.89% beat Columbia Banking System's return on equity.
Columbia Banking System received 214 more outperform votes than Hancock Whitney when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 45.37% of users gave Hancock Whitney an outperform vote while only 44.43% of users gave Columbia Banking System an outperform vote.
Hancock Whitney currently has a consensus target price of $51.43, indicating a potential upside of 6.57%. Columbia Banking System has a consensus target price of $22.19, indicating a potential upside of 7.99%. Given Columbia Banking System's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Columbia Banking System is more favorable than Hancock Whitney.
Hancock Whitney has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Columbia Banking System. Columbia Banking System is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hancock Whitney, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hancock Whitney beats Columbia Banking System on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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