BPOP vs. WTFC, SSB, PB, WAL, CBSH, HOMB, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, and COLB
Should you be buying Popular stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Popular include Wintrust Financial (WTFC), SouthState (SSB), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Wintrust Financial (NASDAQ:WTFC) and Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
Wintrust Financial currently has a consensus target price of $112.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.18%. Popular has a consensus target price of $99.89, suggesting a potential upside of 8.76%. Given Popular's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Wintrust Financial is more favorable than Popular.
Wintrust Financial received 14 more outperform votes than Popular when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.11% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 61.50% of users gave Wintrust Financial an outperform vote.
Wintrust Financial has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Popular has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wintrust Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Popular. Wintrust Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Popular, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Popular shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Popular shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Popular had 18 more articles in the media than Wintrust Financial. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Popular and 4 mentions for Wintrust Financial. Popular's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Wintrust Financial's score of 0.72 indicating that Wintrust Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wintrust Financial has a net margin of 17.86% compared to Wintrust Financial's net margin of 11.95%. Popular's return on equity of 13.09% beat Wintrust Financial's return on equity.
Wintrust Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Wintrust Financial pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Popular pays out 36.8% 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. Wintrust Financial has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Popular has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Summary
Wintrust Financial beats Popular on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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