OZK vs. CADE, HOMB, UBSI, SSB, PB, FFIN, WTFC, GBCI, BPOP, and COLB
Should you be buying Bank OZK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank OZK include Cadence Bank (CADE), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), SouthState (SSB), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Popular (BPOP), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) and Cadence Bank (NYSE:CADE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and risk.
Bank OZK has higher revenue and earnings than Cadence Bank. Bank OZK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadence Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cadence Bank had 3 more articles in the media than Bank OZK. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Cadence Bank and 1 mentions for Bank OZK. Cadence Bank's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Bank OZK's score of 0.46 indicating that Cadence Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.2% of Bank OZK shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of Cadence Bank shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Bank OZK shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Cadence Bank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bank OZK pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Cadence Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Bank OZK pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cadence Bank pays out 31.9% 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.
Bank OZK presently has a consensus price target of $49.14, indicating a potential upside of 3.90%. Cadence Bank has a consensus price target of $31.09, indicating a potential upside of 6.44%. Given Cadence Bank's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cadence Bank is more favorable than Bank OZK.
Cadence Bank received 132 more outperform votes than Bank OZK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.92% of users gave Cadence Bank an outperform vote while only 47.27% of users gave Bank OZK an outperform vote.
Bank OZK has a net margin of 28.54% compared to Cadence Bank's net margin of 23.83%. Bank OZK's return on equity of 14.84% beat Cadence Bank's return on equity.
Bank OZK has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadence Bank has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cadence Bank beats Bank OZK on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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