TBBK vs. WSBC, NBTB, TRMK, FRME, CHCO, FFBC, FCF, HOPE, NBHC, and WABC
Should you be buying Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bancorp include WesBanco (WSBC), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Trustmark (TRMK), First Merchants (FRME), City (CHCO), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), National Bank (NBHC), and Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Bancorp (NASDAQ:TBBK) and WesBanco (NASDAQ:WSBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
Bancorp received 79 more outperform votes than WesBanco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.46% of users gave WesBanco an outperform vote.
Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $49.00, suggesting a potential upside of 59.09%. WesBanco has a consensus price target of $30.60, suggesting a potential upside of 11.19%. Given Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Bancorp is more favorable than WesBanco.
96.2% of Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.4% of WesBanco shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of WesBanco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bancorp has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WesBanco has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bancorp had 23 more articles in the media than WesBanco. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Bancorp and 26 mentions for WesBanco. WesBanco's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Bancorp's score of -0.18 indicating that WesBanco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than WesBanco. Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WesBanco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bancorp has a net margin of 30.94% compared to WesBanco's net margin of 17.52%. Bancorp's return on equity of 26.66% beat WesBanco's return on equity.
Summary
Bancorp beats WesBanco on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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