QCRH vs. OBNK, BMTC, BY, CTBI, BPFH, IBOC, ABCB, SFBS, ASB, and UCBI
Should you be buying QCR stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QCR include Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Bryn Mawr Bank (BMTC), Byline Bancorp (BY), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), Boston Private Financial (BPFH), International Bancshares (IBOC), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), ServisFirst Bancshares (SFBS), Associated Banc (ASB), and United Community Banks (UCBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Origin Bancorp (NASDAQ:OBNK) and QCR (NASDAQ:QCRH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking and dividends.
QCR has a consensus target price of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.69%. Given Origin Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe QCR is more favorable than Origin Bancorp.
Origin Bancorp has a net margin of 20.47% compared to Origin Bancorp's net margin of 19.92%. Origin Bancorp's return on equity of 13.23% beat QCR's return on equity.
47.2% of Origin Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of QCR shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Origin Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of QCR shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
QCR has higher revenue and earnings than Origin Bancorp. QCR is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Origin Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, QCR had 2 more articles in the media than Origin Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for QCR and 0 mentions for Origin Bancorp. Origin Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat QCR's score of 0.00 indicating that QCR is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Origin Bancorp has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QCR has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
QCR received 160 more outperform votes than Origin Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.62% of users gave QCR an outperform vote while only 63.77% of users gave Origin Bancorp an outperform vote.
Origin Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. QCR pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Origin Bancorp pays out 18.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. QCR pays out 3.6% 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. Origin Bancorp has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Origin Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
QCR beats Origin Bancorp on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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