SYBT vs. EFSC, FBNC, BUSE, TCBK, SRCE, STBA, BANR, LKFN, PFBC, and RNST
Should you be buying Stock Yards Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stock Yards Bancorp include Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), First Bancorp (FBNC), First Busey (BUSE), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), 1st Source (SRCE), S&T Bancorp (STBA), Banner (BANR), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Preferred Bank (PFBC), and Renasant (RNST). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) and Stock Yards Bancorp (NASDAQ:SYBT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
Enterprise Financial Services presently has a consensus price target of $47.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.97%. Stock Yards Bancorp has a consensus price target of $50.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.41%. Given Stock Yards Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Enterprise Financial Services is more favorable than Stock Yards Bancorp.
Enterprise Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Stock Yards Bancorp. Enterprise Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stock Yards Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a net margin of 22.86% compared to Stock Yards Bancorp's net margin of 20.60%. Enterprise Financial Services' return on equity of 12.51% beat Stock Yards Bancorp's return on equity.
Enterprise Financial Services received 68 more outperform votes than Stock Yards Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.88% of users gave Enterprise Financial Services an outperform vote while only 54.06% of users gave Stock Yards Bancorp an outperform vote.
Enterprise Financial Services has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stock Yards Bancorp has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
72.2% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Stock Yards Bancorp 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.
In the previous week, Stock Yards Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Enterprise Financial Services. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Stock Yards Bancorp and 5 mentions for Enterprise Financial Services. Stock Yards Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Enterprise Financial Services' score of 0.89 indicating that Enterprise Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Enterprise Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Stock Yards Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Enterprise Financial Services pays out 21.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stock Yards Bancorp pays out 33.7% 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. Enterprise Financial Services has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years and Stock Yards Bancorp has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Stock Yards Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Enterprise Financial Services beats Stock Yards Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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