EGBN vs. SBSI, VBTX, BUSE, TBK, EFSC, SFNC, INDB, FFBC, BKU, and TOWN
Should you be buying Eagle Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bancorp include Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Veritex (VBTX), First Busey (BUSE), Triumph Financial (TBK), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Simmons First National (SFNC), Independent Bank (INDB), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), BankUnited (BKU), and TowneBank (TOWN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) and Southside Bancshares (NASDAQ:SBSI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Southside Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than Eagle Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Southside Bancshares and 4 mentions for Eagle Bancorp. Eagle Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Southside Bancshares' score of 0.21 indicating that Eagle Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Southside Bancshares has a net margin of 19.79% compared to Eagle Bancorp's net margin of 11.14%. Southside Bancshares' return on equity of 10.80% beat Eagle Bancorp's return on equity.
Eagle Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.92%. Southside Bancshares has a consensus price target of $32.67, indicating a potential upside of 23.93%. Given Eagle Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Eagle Bancorp is more favorable than Southside Bancshares.
78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of Southside Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Southside Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Southside Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Eagle Bancorp pays out 71.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southside Bancshares pays out 53.5% 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.
Eagle Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Southside Bancshares. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southside Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southside Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Bancorp received 164 more outperform votes than Southside Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.65% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 42.82% of users gave Southside Bancshares an outperform vote.
Summary
Southside Bancshares beats Eagle Bancorp on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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