AUB vs. CVBF, CATY, BOH, INDB, TCBI, FHB, PPBI, FIBK, SBCF, and HTH
Should you be buying Atlantic Union Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atlantic Union Bankshares include CVB Financial (CVBF), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), Independent Bank (INDB), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), First Hawaiian (FHB), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), and Hilltop (HTH). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
CVB Financial (NASDAQ:CVBF) and Atlantic Union Bankshares (NASDAQ:AUB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
CVB Financial has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlantic Union Bankshares has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CVB Financial presently has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.53%. Atlantic Union Bankshares has a consensus target price of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.63%. Given CVB Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Atlantic Union Bankshares is more favorable than CVB Financial.
In the previous week, Atlantic Union Bankshares had 4 more articles in the media than CVB Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Atlantic Union Bankshares and 0 mentions for CVB Financial. Atlantic Union Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat CVB Financial's score of -0.63 indicating that CVB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CVB Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Atlantic Union Bankshares. CVB Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atlantic Union Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CVB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Atlantic Union Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. CVB Financial pays out 52.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Atlantic Union Bankshares pays out 47.1% 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. Atlantic Union Bankshares has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
74.2% of CVB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Atlantic Union Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of CVB Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Atlantic Union Bankshares shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CVB Financial has a net margin of 30.93% compared to CVB Financial's net margin of 19.51%. Atlantic Union Bankshares' return on equity of 10.84% beat CVB Financial's return on equity.
CVB Financial received 285 more outperform votes than Atlantic Union Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.29% of users gave Atlantic Union Bankshares an outperform vote while only 51.97% of users gave CVB Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Atlantic Union Bankshares beats CVB Financial on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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