GSBC vs. HBNC, WASH, CTBI, CNOB, ABTX, CVBF, BOH, SFNC, INDB, and FFBC
Should you be buying Great Southern Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Southern Bancorp include Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Washington Trust Bancorp (WASH), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Allegiance Bancshares (ABTX), CVB Financial (CVBF), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), Simmons First National (SFNC), Independent Bank (INDB), and First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Horizon Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBNC) and Great Southern Bancorp (NASDAQ:GSBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking and risk.
Horizon Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Great Southern Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Horizon Bancorp pays out 118.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Great Southern Bancorp pays out 31.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Horizon Bancorp has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Great Southern Bancorp has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Horizon Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
64.5% of Horizon Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Horizon Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.6% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Horizon Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $12.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.29%. Great Southern Bancorp has a consensus price target of $57.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.54%. Given Horizon Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Great Southern Bancorp is more favorable than Horizon Bancorp.
Horizon Bancorp has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Southern Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Great Southern Bancorp has a net margin of 18.31% compared to Great Southern Bancorp's net margin of 7.02%. Horizon Bancorp's return on equity of 10.97% beat Great Southern Bancorp's return on equity.
Horizon Bancorp received 79 more outperform votes than Great Southern Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.52% of users gave Horizon Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.83% of users gave Great Southern Bancorp an outperform vote.
Great Southern Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Horizon Bancorp. Great Southern Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Horizon Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Horizon Bancorp and Horizon Bancorp both had 4 articles in the media. Horizon Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Great Southern Bancorp's score of 0.87 indicating that Great Southern Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Horizon Bancorp and Great Southern Bancorp tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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