EQBK vs. SPFI, RBNC, CCNE, ACBI, RBB, HTH, TOWN, SBCF, IBTX, and HTLF
Should you be buying Equity Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equity Bancshares include South Plains Financial (SPFI), Reliant Bancorp (RBNC), CNB Financial (CCNE), Atlantic Capital Bancshares (ACBI), RBB Bancorp (RBB), Hilltop (HTH), TowneBank (TOWN), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), and Heartland Financial USA (HTLF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Equity Bancshares (NASDAQ:EQBK) and South Plains Financial (NASDAQ:SPFI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
South Plains Financial has a net margin of 21.23% compared to Equity Bancshares' net margin of 3.88%. Equity Bancshares' return on equity of 12.08% beat South Plains Financial's return on equity.
Equity Bancshares received 93 more outperform votes than South Plains Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.66% of users gave South Plains Financial an outperform vote while only 48.58% of users gave Equity Bancshares an outperform vote.
Equity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. South Plains Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Equity Bancshares pays out 80.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. South Plains Financial pays out 15.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. South Plains Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
South Plains Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Equity Bancshares. South Plains Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Equity Bancshares has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, South Plains Financial has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Equity Bancshares had 2 more articles in the media than South Plains Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Equity Bancshares and 2 mentions for South Plains Financial. Equity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat South Plains Financial's score of 0.94 indicating that Equity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
71.8% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.0% of South Plains Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Equity Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.4% of South Plains Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Equity Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $32.67, suggesting a potential downside of 3.07%. South Plains Financial has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.18%. Given South Plains Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe South Plains Financial is more favorable than Equity Bancshares.
Summary
South Plains Financial beats Equity Bancshares on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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