CPF vs. EGBN, HBNC, MBWM, HTBK, GSBC, FCBC, UVSP, CCBG, FMNB, and WASH
Should you be buying Central Pacific Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Pacific Financial include Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Univest Financial (UVSP), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Farmers National Banc (FMNB), and Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Central Pacific Financial (NYSE:CPF) and Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
Central Pacific Financial has a net margin of 16.44% compared to Eagle Bancorp's net margin of 11.14%. Central Pacific Financial's return on equity of 11.34% beat Eagle Bancorp's return on equity.
Central Pacific Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Central Pacific Financial pays out 50.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Bancorp pays out 71.7% 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.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp had 9 more articles in the media than Central Pacific Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Eagle Bancorp and 0 mentions for Central Pacific Financial. Eagle Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Central Pacific Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Eagle Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eagle Bancorp received 83 more outperform votes than Central Pacific Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.86% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.80% of users gave Central Pacific Financial an outperform vote.
Central Pacific Financial presently has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.34%. Eagle Bancorp has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.86%. Given Central Pacific Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Central Pacific Financial is more favorable than Eagle Bancorp.
Central Pacific Financial has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Central Pacific Financial. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Central Pacific Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.4% of Central Pacific Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Central Pacific Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Central Pacific Financial beats Eagle Bancorp on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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