BOH vs. CVBF, INDB, CATY, SBCF, TOWN, FIBK, FBP, RNST, OFG, and LKFN
Should you be buying Bank of Hawaii stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of Hawaii include CVB Financial (CVBF), Independent Bank (INDB), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), TowneBank (TOWN), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), First BanCorp. (FBP), Renasant (RNST), OFG Bancorp (OFG), and Lakeland Financial (LKFN). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
CVB Financial (NASDAQ:CVBF) and Bank of Hawaii (NYSE:BOH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
CVB Financial presently has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.29%. Bank of Hawaii has a consensus price target of $52.20, suggesting a potential downside of 10.97%. Given Bank of Hawaii's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CVB Financial is more favorable than Bank of Hawaii.
In the previous week, CVB Financial had 4 more articles in the media than Bank of Hawaii. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for CVB Financial and 31 mentions for Bank of Hawaii. CVB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Bank of Hawaii's score of 0.04 indicating that Bank of Hawaii is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
CVB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Bank of Hawaii pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. CVB Financial pays out 52.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of Hawaii pays out 72.2% 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.
74.2% of CVB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Bank of Hawaii shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of CVB Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Bank of Hawaii shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CVB Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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 beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of Hawaii has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CVB Financial beats Bank of Hawaii on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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