BUSE vs. TCBK, TBK, EFSC, VBTX, LKFN, FNB, HOMB, UBSI, FFIN, and GBCI
Should you be buying First Busey stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Busey include TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), Triumph Financial (TBK), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Veritex (VBTX), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), F.N.B. (FNB), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), and Glacier Bancorp (GBCI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBK) and First Busey (NASDAQ:BUSE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
59.1% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of First Busey shares are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of TriCo Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of First Busey shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
First Busey has higher revenue and earnings than TriCo Bancshares. First Busey is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TriCo Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TriCo Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Busey has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TriCo Bancshares has a net margin of 21.25% compared to TriCo Bancshares' net margin of 18.08%. First Busey's return on equity of 9.75% beat TriCo Bancshares' return on equity.
TriCo Bancshares presently has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.69%. First Busey has a consensus target price of $25.75, indicating a potential upside of 14.60%. Given TriCo Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe First Busey is more favorable than TriCo Bancshares.
First Busey received 122 more outperform votes than TriCo Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.63% of users gave First Busey an outperform vote while only 54.00% of users gave TriCo Bancshares an outperform vote.
In the previous week, TriCo Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than First Busey. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for TriCo Bancshares and 1 mentions for First Busey. TriCo Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat First Busey's score of 1.43 indicating that First Busey 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 3.5%. First Busey pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. TriCo Bancshares pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Busey pays out 48.5% 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
First Busey beats TriCo Bancshares on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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