STBA vs. TCBK, SRCE, PFBC, BUSE, SYBT, PEBO, GABC, FBNC, RBCAA, and EFSC
Should you be buying S&T Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&T Bancorp include TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), 1st Source (SRCE), Preferred Bank (PFBC), First Busey (BUSE), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), German American Bancorp (GABC), First Bancorp (FBNC), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), and Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBK) and S&T Bancorp (NASDAQ:STBA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
S&T Bancorp has a net margin of 24.68% compared to S&T Bancorp's net margin of 21.25%. TriCo Bancshares' return on equity of 10.86% beat S&T Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, TriCo Bancshares had 10 more articles in the media than S&T Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for TriCo Bancshares and 2 mentions for S&T Bancorp. TriCo Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat S&T Bancorp's score of 0.60 indicating that S&T Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TriCo Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.09%. S&T Bancorp has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.91%. Given S&T Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe TriCo Bancshares is more favorable than S&T Bancorp.
TriCo Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. S&T Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. TriCo Bancshares pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. S&T Bancorp pays out 37.4% 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. TriCo Bancshares has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and S&T Bancorp has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. S&T Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
TriCo Bancshares has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&T Bancorp has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
S&T Bancorp received 19 more outperform votes than TriCo Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.00% of users gave TriCo Bancshares an outperform vote while only 51.24% of users gave S&T Bancorp an outperform vote.
S&T Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than TriCo Bancshares. S&T Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TriCo Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.1% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.2% of S&T Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of S&T Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
S&T Bancorp beats TriCo Bancshares on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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