TCBK vs. SRCE, FBNC, STBA, BUSE, PFBC, VBTX, SYBT, PEBO, RBCAA, and EFSC
Should you be buying TriCo Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TriCo Bancshares include 1st Source (SRCE), First Bancorp (FBNC), S&T Bancorp (STBA), First Busey (BUSE), Preferred Bank (PFBC), Veritex (VBTX), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), and Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBK) and 1st Source (NASDAQ:SRCE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
1st Source has a net margin of 23.33% compared to TriCo Bancshares' net margin of 21.25%. 1st Source's return on equity of 11.99% beat TriCo Bancshares' return on equity.
TriCo Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $42.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.42%. 1st Source has a consensus target price of $56.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.17%. Given TriCo Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe TriCo Bancshares is more favorable than 1st Source.
TriCo Bancshares has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 1st Source has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TriCo Bancshares had 5 more articles in the media than 1st Source. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for TriCo Bancshares and 1 mentions for 1st Source. 1st Source's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat TriCo Bancshares' score of 0.91 indicating that 1st Source is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TriCo Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. 1st Source pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. TriCo Bancshares pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 1st Source pays out 27.4% 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.
59.1% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of 1st Source shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.3% of 1st Source shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
1st Source received 6 more outperform votes than TriCo Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.40% of users gave 1st Source an outperform vote while only 54.00% of users gave TriCo Bancshares an outperform vote.
1st Source has higher revenue and earnings than TriCo Bancshares. 1st Source is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TriCo Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
1st Source beats TriCo Bancshares on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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