TRMK vs. TBBK, NBTB, WSBC, FRME, CHCO, FFBC, SFNC, FCF, NBHC, and WABC
Should you be buying Trustmark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trustmark include Bancorp (TBBK), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), WesBanco (WSBC), First Merchants (FRME), City (CHCO), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Simmons First National (SFNC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), National Bank (NBHC), and Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Bancorp (NASDAQ:TBBK) and Trustmark (NASDAQ:TRMK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Bancorp has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trustmark has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 45.44%. Trustmark has a consensus price target of $32.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.43%. Given Trustmark's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bancorp is more favorable than Trustmark.
96.2% of Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.6% of Trustmark shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Trustmark shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Bancorp had 5 more articles in the media than Trustmark. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Bancorp and 1 mentions for Trustmark. Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Trustmark's score of 0.15 indicating that Trustmark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bancorp has a net margin of 31.40% compared to Bancorp's net margin of 13.82%. Trustmark's return on equity of 26.32% beat Bancorp's return on equity.
Bancorp received 60 more outperform votes than Trustmark when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.36% of users gave Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.90% of users gave Trustmark an outperform vote.
Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Trustmark. Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trustmark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bancorp beats Trustmark on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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