BSVN vs. PEBO, BY, QCRH, GABC, OBK, OBNK, LBAI, SBSI, CNOB, and AMAL
Should you be buying Bank7 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank7 include Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), Byline Bancorp (BY), QCR (QCRH), German American Bancorp (GABC), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), and Amalgamated Financial (AMAL). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Bank7 (NASDAQ:BSVN) and Peoples Bancorp (NASDAQ:PEBO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Peoples Bancorp received 198 more outperform votes than Bank7 when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.72% of users gave Bank7 an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Peoples Bancorp an outperform vote.
Bank7 has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Peoples Bancorp has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
23.5% of Bank7 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.7% of Peoples Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 44.0% of Bank7 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Peoples Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bank7 pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Peoples Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Bank7 pays out 26.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Peoples Bancorp pays out 47.9% 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.
Peoples Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Bank7. Peoples Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bank7, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bank7 currently has a consensus target price of $32.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.99%. Peoples Bancorp has a consensus target price of $33.40, suggesting a potential upside of 14.58%. Given Peoples Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Peoples Bancorp is more favorable than Bank7.
Bank7 has a net margin of 21.70% compared to Peoples Bancorp's net margin of 20.17%. Bank7's return on equity of 17.61% beat Peoples Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Bank7 and Bank7 both had 1 articles in the media. Bank7's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Peoples Bancorp's score of 1.71 indicating that Bank7 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Bank7 beats Peoples Bancorp on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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