SBSI vs. EGBN, PFBC, TCBK, STBA, SRCE, BUSE, NBHC, FBNC, SYBT, and VBTX
Should you be buying Southside Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southside Bancshares include Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Preferred Bank (PFBC), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), S&T Bancorp (STBA), 1st Source (SRCE), First Busey (BUSE), National Bank (NBHC), First Bancorp (FBNC), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), and Veritex (VBTX).
Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) and Southside Bancshares (NASDAQ:SBSI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Southside Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Eagle Bancorp and 1 mentions for Southside Bancshares. Southside Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Eagle Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Eagle Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Southside Bancshares. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southside Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Southside Bancshares has a net margin of 19.79% compared to Southside Bancshares' net margin of 11.14%. Eagle Bancorp's return on equity of 10.80% beat Southside Bancshares' return on equity.
Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Southside Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Eagle Bancorp pays out 71.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southside Bancshares pays out 53.5% 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. Southside Bancshares has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years.
Eagle Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.46%. Southside Bancshares has a consensus target price of $33.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.25%. Given Eagle Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Southside Bancshares is more favorable than Eagle Bancorp.
Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southside Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Bancorp received 164 more outperform votes than Southside Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.86% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 42.93% of users gave Southside Bancshares an outperform vote.
78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of Southside Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Southside Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Southside Bancshares beats Eagle Bancorp on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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