WSBC vs. NBTB, TBBK, TRMK, CHCO, FCF, NBHC, FRME, WABC, HOPE, and FFBC
Should you be buying WesBanco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WesBanco include NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Bancorp (TBBK), Trustmark (TRMK), City (CHCO), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), National Bank (NBHC), First Merchants (FRME), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), and First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
NBT Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBTB) and WesBanco (NASDAQ:WSBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
NBT Bancorp has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WesBanco has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
WesBanco has a net margin of 17.52% compared to WesBanco's net margin of 16.71%. WesBanco's return on equity of 10.20% beat NBT Bancorp's return on equity.
WesBanco received 35 more outperform votes than NBT Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.38% of users gave NBT Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.46% of users gave WesBanco an outperform vote.
58.5% of NBT Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.4% of WesBanco shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of NBT Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of WesBanco shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NBT Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $41.20, indicating a potential upside of 7.71%. WesBanco has a consensus target price of $30.60, indicating a potential upside of 5.12%. Given WesBanco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe NBT Bancorp is more favorable than WesBanco.
NBT Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. WesBanco pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. NBT Bancorp pays out 49.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. WesBanco pays out 60.0% 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. NBT Bancorp has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years and WesBanco has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. WesBanco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
WesBanco has higher revenue and earnings than NBT Bancorp. WesBanco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NBT Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, WesBanco had 5 more articles in the media than NBT Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for WesBanco and 0 mentions for NBT Bancorp. NBT Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat WesBanco's score of 0.00 indicating that WesBanco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
WesBanco beats NBT Bancorp on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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