MAIN vs. GBCI, BGC, LAZ, AGO, STEP, COLB, FFIN, HWC, AEL, and ESGR
Should you be buying Main Street Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Main Street Capital include Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), BGC Group (BGC), Lazard (LAZ), Assured Guaranty (AGO), StepStone Group (STEP), Columbia Banking System (COLB), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Hancock Whitney (HWC), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), and Enstar Group (ESGR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) and Glacier Bancorp (NASDAQ:GBCI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Main Street Capital received 140 more outperform votes than Glacier Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.06% of users gave Main Street Capital an outperform vote while only 50.19% of users gave Glacier Bancorp an outperform vote.
Main Street Capital presently has a consensus target price of $46.17, indicating a potential downside of 8.94%. Glacier Bancorp has a consensus target price of $40.40, indicating a potential upside of 5.87%. Given Glacier Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Glacier Bancorp is more favorable than Main Street Capital.
Main Street Capital has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Glacier Bancorp has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Main Street Capital has a net margin of 85.62% compared to Glacier Bancorp's net margin of 16.40%. Main Street Capital's return on equity of 14.99% beat Glacier Bancorp's return on equity.
20.3% of Main Street Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.2% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Main Street Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Main Street Capital had 8 more articles in the media than Glacier Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Main Street Capital and 4 mentions for Glacier Bancorp. Glacier Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Main Street Capital's score of 0.40 indicating that Glacier Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Main Street Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Glacier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Main Street Capital pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Glacier Bancorp pays out 75.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Main Street Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Main Street Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Glacier Bancorp. Main Street Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glacier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Main Street Capital beats Glacier Bancorp on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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