FBK vs. OFG, HTLF, TFIN, RNST, IBTX, TOWN, BANR, LOB, LKFN, and HTH
Should you be buying FB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FB Financial include OFG Bancorp (OFG), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Renasant (RNST), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), TowneBank (TOWN), Banner (BANR), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), and Hilltop (HTH). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
OFG Bancorp (NYSE:OFG) and FB Financial (NYSE:FBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.
OFG Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. FB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. OFG Bancorp pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FB Financial pays out 28.6% 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. OFG Bancorp has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years and FB Financial has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. OFG Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
OFG Bancorp received 45 more outperform votes than FB Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.15% of users gave OFG Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.90% of users gave FB Financial an outperform vote.
OFG Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.68%. FB Financial has a consensus target price of $39.43, indicating a potential upside of 1.54%. Given FB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe OFG Bancorp is more favorable than FB Financial.
OFG Bancorp has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FB Financial has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
OFG Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FB Financial. OFG Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OFG Bancorp has a net margin of 23.00% compared to OFG Bancorp's net margin of 14.90%. FB Financial's return on equity of 16.10% beat OFG Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, OFG Bancorp had 13 more articles in the media than FB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for OFG Bancorp and 1 mentions for FB Financial. FB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat OFG Bancorp's score of -1.00 indicating that OFG Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.7% of OFG Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.4% of FB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of OFG Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of FB Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
OFG Bancorp beats FB Financial on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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