EFSC vs. SYBT, LKFN, BANR, BUSE, FBNC, SRCE, TCBK, RNST, STBA, and OFG
Should you be buying Enterprise Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Financial Services include Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Banner (BANR), First Busey (BUSE), First Bancorp (FBNC), 1st Source (SRCE), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), Renasant (RNST), S&T Bancorp (STBA), and OFG Bancorp (OFG). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Stock Yards Bancorp (NASDAQ:SYBT) and Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Enterprise Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Stock Yards Bancorp. Enterprise Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stock Yards Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stock Yards Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.54%. Enterprise Financial Services has a consensus target price of $47.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.04%. Given Stock Yards Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Enterprise Financial Services is more favorable than Stock Yards Bancorp.
Enterprise Financial Services received 68 more outperform votes than Stock Yards Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.88% of users gave Enterprise Financial Services an outperform vote while only 54.06% of users gave Stock Yards Bancorp an outperform vote.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Financial Services has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stock Yards Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Enterprise Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Stock Yards Bancorp pays out 33.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Financial Services pays out 21.4% 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. Stock Yards Bancorp has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Enterprise Financial Services has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Enterprise Financial Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Stock Yards Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Enterprise Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Stock Yards Bancorp and 4 mentions for Enterprise Financial Services. Stock Yards Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Enterprise Financial Services' score of 0.24 indicating that Enterprise Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a net margin of 22.86% compared to Stock Yards Bancorp's net margin of 20.60%. Enterprise Financial Services' return on equity of 12.51% beat Stock Yards Bancorp's return on equity.
56.5% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Enterprise Financial Services beats Stock Yards Bancorp on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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