CADE vs. NTRS, CFG, ALLY, EWBC, CBSH, WAL, BPOP, WTFC, PB, and SSB
Should you be buying Cadence Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadence Bank include Northern Trust (NTRS), Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Ally Financial (ALLY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Popular (BPOP), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), and SouthState (SSB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Northern Trust (NASDAQ:NTRS) and Cadence Bank (NYSE:CADE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Northern Trust received 87 more outperform votes than Cadence Bank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.92% of users gave Cadence Bank an outperform vote while only 41.79% of users gave Northern Trust an outperform vote.
83.2% of Northern Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of Cadence Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Northern Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Cadence Bank shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cadence Bank has a net margin of 23.83% compared to Cadence Bank's net margin of 7.59%. Cadence Bank's return on equity of 12.57% beat Northern Trust's return on equity.
Northern Trust has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadence Bank has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northern Trust currently has a consensus price target of $84.92, indicating a potential upside of 3.19%. Cadence Bank has a consensus price target of $31.09, indicating a potential upside of 9.63%. Given Northern Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cadence Bank is more favorable than Northern Trust.
In the previous week, Northern Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Cadence Bank. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Northern Trust and 4 mentions for Cadence Bank. Cadence Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Northern Trust's score of 1.35 indicating that Northern Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Northern Trust pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Cadence Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Northern Trust pays out 66.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cadence Bank pays out 31.9% 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. Northern Trust has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Cadence Bank has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Northern Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Cadence Bank. Cadence Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Northern Trust and Cadence Bank tied by winning 11 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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