UBSI vs. OZK, FFIN, GBCI, SSB, WTFC, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WBS
Should you be buying United Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Bankshares include Bank OZK (OZK), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), SouthState (SSB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) and United Bankshares (NASDAQ:UBSI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Bank OZK has a net margin of 28.54% compared to Bank OZK's net margin of 22.51%. United Bankshares' return on equity of 14.84% beat Bank OZK's return on equity.
Bank OZK currently has a consensus price target of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.73%. United Bankshares has a consensus price target of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.70%. Given United Bankshares' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Bank OZK is more favorable than United Bankshares.
In the previous week, Bank OZK had 11 more articles in the media than United Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Bank OZK and 0 mentions for United Bankshares. Bank OZK's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat United Bankshares' score of 0.57 indicating that United Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.2% of Bank OZK shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of United Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Bank OZK shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of United Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bank OZK has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Bankshares has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bank OZK pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. United Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Bank OZK pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United Bankshares pays out 56.5% 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. Bank OZK has increased its dividend for 28 consecutive years and United Bankshares has increased its dividend for 25 consecutive years.
Bank OZK has higher revenue and earnings than United Bankshares. Bank OZK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Bankshares received 96 more outperform votes than Bank OZK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.70% of users gave United Bankshares an outperform vote while only 46.76% of users gave Bank OZK an outperform vote.
Summary
Bank OZK beats United Bankshares on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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