VBTX vs. TCBK, SRCE, BUSE, SBSI, EFSC, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, HWC, and COLB
Should you be buying Veritex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veritex include TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), 1st Source (SRCE), First Busey (BUSE), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Hancock Whitney (HWC), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBK) and Veritex (NASDAQ:VBTX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
TriCo Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.30%. Veritex has a consensus target price of $24.38, indicating a potential upside of 20.31%. Given TriCo Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Veritex is more favorable than TriCo Bancshares.
TriCo Bancshares has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veritex has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
59.1% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of Veritex shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Veritex shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, TriCo Bancshares and TriCo Bancshares both had 7 articles in the media. TriCo Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Veritex's score of 1.18 indicating that Veritex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TriCo Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Veritex. TriCo Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veritex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TriCo Bancshares has a net margin of 21.25% compared to TriCo Bancshares' net margin of 12.47%. Veritex's return on equity of 9.75% beat TriCo Bancshares' return on equity.
TriCo Bancshares received 22 more outperform votes than Veritex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.00% of users gave TriCo Bancshares an outperform vote while only 50.67% of users gave Veritex an outperform vote.
TriCo Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Veritex pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. TriCo Bancshares pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Veritex pays out 46.5% 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. TriCo Bancshares has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
Summary
TriCo Bancshares beats Veritex on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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