PEBO vs. RBCAA, GABC, TCBK, BUSE, FBNC, LBAI, CTBI, FMBH, EFSC, and UVSP
Should you be buying Peoples Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Bancorp include Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), German American Bancorp (GABC), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), First Busey (BUSE), First Bancorp (FBNC), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), and Univest Financial (UVSP). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Republic Bancorp (NASDAQ:RBCAA) and Peoples Bancorp (NASDAQ:PEBO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
24.4% of Republic Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.7% of Peoples Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 56.6% of Republic Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Peoples Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Peoples Bancorp received 103 more outperform votes than Republic Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.64% of users gave Republic Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Peoples Bancorp an outperform vote.
Peoples Bancorp has a consensus price target of $33.40, suggesting a potential upside of 9.44%. Given Republic Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Peoples Bancorp is more favorable than Republic Bancorp.
Republic Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peoples Bancorp has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Peoples Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Republic Bancorp. Peoples Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Republic Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Republic Bancorp has a net margin of 20.27% compared to Republic Bancorp's net margin of 20.17%. Republic Bancorp's return on equity of 12.78% beat Peoples Bancorp's return on equity.
Republic Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Peoples Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Republic Bancorp pays out 34.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peoples Bancorp pays out 47.9% 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. Republic Bancorp has raised its dividend for 23 consecutive years and Peoples Bancorp has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Peoples Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Republic Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Peoples Bancorp and 2 mentions for Republic Bancorp. Peoples Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Republic Bancorp's score of 0.36 indicating that Republic Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Republic Bancorp and Peoples Bancorp tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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