LBAI vs. CTBI, CNOB, OBNK, GABC, UVSP, FCBC, RBCAA, GSBC, MBWM, and PEBO
Should you be buying Lakeland Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lakeland Bancorp include Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), German American Bancorp (GABC), Univest Financial (UVSP), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), and Peoples Bancorp (PEBO). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) and Lakeland Bancorp (NASDAQ:LBAI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lakeland Bancorp has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lakeland Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Community Trust Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lakeland Bancorp and 2 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp. Lakeland Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Community Trust Bancorp's score of 0.56 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Community Trust Bancorp has a net margin of 22.64% compared to Community Trust Bancorp's net margin of 16.00%. Lakeland Bancorp's return on equity of 11.52% beat Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity.
Community Trust Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.24%. Lakeland Bancorp has a consensus price target of $14.15, suggesting a potential upside of 7.85%. Given Lakeland Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Community Trust Bancorp is more favorable than Lakeland Bancorp.
60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.6% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lakeland Bancorp received 63 more outperform votes than Community Trust Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.69% of users gave Lakeland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.34% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote.
Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Lakeland Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lakeland Bancorp pays out 45.3% 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. Community Trust Bancorp has increased its dividend for 43 consecutive years.
Lakeland Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Community Trust Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lakeland Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats Lakeland Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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