HOPE vs. EBSB, WABC, FCF, NBHC, NWBI, FNB, HOMB, UBSI, FFIN, and GBCI
Should you be buying Hope Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hope Bancorp include Meridian Bancorp (EBSB), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), National Bank (NBHC), Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), 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.
Meridian Bancorp (NASDAQ:EBSB) and Hope Bancorp (NASDAQ:HOPE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Hope Bancorp has a consensus target price of $11.83, suggesting a potential upside of 16.24%. Given Meridian Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hope Bancorp is more favorable than Meridian Bancorp.
Meridian Bancorp has a net margin of 31.56% compared to Meridian Bancorp's net margin of 10.80%. Hope Bancorp's return on equity of 9.75% beat Meridian Bancorp's return on equity.
Hope Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Meridian Bancorp. Hope Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Meridian Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Meridian Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Hope Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Meridian Bancorp pays out 26.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hope Bancorp pays out 56.0% 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.
In the previous week, Hope Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Meridian Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Hope Bancorp and 0 mentions for Meridian Bancorp. Meridian Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Hope Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Hope Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Meridian Bancorp has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hope Bancorp has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.5% of Meridian Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Hope Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Meridian Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Hope Bancorp shares are held by company 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.
Hope Bancorp received 11 more outperform votes than Meridian Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.47% of users gave Hope Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.60% of users gave Meridian Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Hope Bancorp beats Meridian Bancorp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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