HOMB vs. UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, COLB, SSB, PB, WTFC, IBOC, BPOP, and ABCB
Should you be buying Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) include United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Columbia Banking System (COLB), SouthState (SSB), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), International Bancshares (IBOC), Popular (BPOP), and Ameris Bancorp (ABCB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
United Bankshares (NASDAQ:UBSI) and Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (NYSE:HOMB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has lower revenue, but higher earnings than United Bankshares. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Bankshares has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a net margin of 28.17% compared to Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s net margin of 22.51%. United Bankshares' return on equity of 10.52% beat Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s return on equity.
United Bankshares currently has a consensus price target of $37.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.08%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.28%. Given Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe United Bankshares is more favorable than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR).
In the previous week, United Bankshares had 8 more articles in the media than Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR). MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for United Bankshares and 1 mentions for Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR). United Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR)'s score of 1.11 indicating that Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.8% of United Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of United Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) received 228 more outperform votes than United Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) an outperform vote while only 47.70% of users gave United Bankshares an outperform vote.
United Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. United Bankshares pays out 56.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) pays out 37.1% 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. United Bankshares has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Summary
Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) beats United Bankshares on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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