HTH vs. TOWN, SBCF, HTLF, PPBI, MBIN, FBK, OFG, INDB, TFIN, and RNST
Should you be buying Hilltop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hilltop include TowneBank (TOWN), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), FB Financial (FBK), OFG Bancorp (OFG), Independent Bank (INDB), Triumph Financial (TFIN), and Renasant (RNST). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Hilltop (NYSE:HTH) and TowneBank (NASDAQ:TOWN) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
TowneBank has a net margin of 15.50% compared to Hilltop's net margin of 6.95%. TowneBank's return on equity of 7.51% beat Hilltop's return on equity.
Hilltop has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TowneBank has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TowneBank has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hilltop. TowneBank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilltop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hilltop currently has a consensus target price of $32.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.17%. TowneBank has a consensus target price of $29.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.06%. Given TowneBank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TowneBank is more favorable than Hilltop.
57.1% of Hilltop shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.0% of TowneBank shares are held by institutional investors. 28.9% of Hilltop shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of TowneBank shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hilltop received 38 more outperform votes than TowneBank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.41% of users gave TowneBank an outperform vote while only 53.76% of users gave Hilltop an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hilltop had 1 more articles in the media than TowneBank. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Hilltop and 1 mentions for TowneBank. TowneBank's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Hilltop's score of 0.00 indicating that TowneBank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hilltop pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. TowneBank pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Hilltop pays out 39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TowneBank pays out 49.8% 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.
Summary
TowneBank beats Hilltop on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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