SYBT vs. BUSE, FBNC, SRCE, EFSC, STBA, TCBK, HTLF, PFBC, BANR, and LKFN
Should you be buying Stock Yards Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stock Yards Bancorp include First Busey (BUSE), First Bancorp (FBNC), 1st Source (SRCE), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), S&T Bancorp (STBA), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Preferred Bank (PFBC), Banner (BANR), and Lakeland Financial (LKFN). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Stock Yards Bancorp (NASDAQ:SYBT) and First Busey (NASDAQ:BUSE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
56.5% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of First Busey shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of First Busey 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.
Stock Yards Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.34%. First Busey has a consensus target price of $25.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.94%. Given First Busey's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe First Busey is more favorable than Stock Yards Bancorp.
In the previous week, First Busey had 13 more articles in the media than Stock Yards Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for First Busey and 11 mentions for Stock Yards Bancorp. First Busey's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Stock Yards Bancorp's score of 0.12 indicating that First Busey is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
First Busey has higher revenue and earnings than Stock Yards Bancorp. First Busey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stock Yards Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Busey has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a net margin of 22.86% compared to First Busey's net margin of 18.08%. Stock Yards Bancorp's return on equity of 12.70% beat First Busey's return on equity.
Stock Yards Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. First Busey pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Stock Yards Bancorp pays out 33.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Busey pays out 48.5% 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.
First Busey received 159 more outperform votes than Stock Yards Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.71% of users gave First Busey an outperform vote while only 54.06% of users gave Stock Yards Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
First Busey beats Stock Yards Bancorp on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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