CCB vs. HBNC, CPF, BFST, TRST, IBCP, EQBK, CATC, EGBN, MSBI, and HTBK
Should you be buying Coastal Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coastal Financial include Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Business First Bancshares (BFST), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Independent Bank (IBCP), Equity Bancshares (EQBK), Cambridge Bancorp (CATC), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), and Heritage Commerce (HTBK). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Horizon Bancorp (NASDAQ:HBNC) and Coastal Financial (NASDAQ:CCB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
64.5% of Horizon Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.2% of Coastal Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Horizon Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Coastal Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Horizon Bancorp has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coastal Financial has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coastal Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Horizon Bancorp. Coastal Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Horizon Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Horizon Bancorp has a net margin of 7.02% compared to Horizon Bancorp's net margin of 6.55%. Horizon Bancorp's return on equity of 14.31% beat Coastal Financial's return on equity.
Horizon Bancorp received 301 more outperform votes than Coastal Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.63% of users gave Horizon Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.33% of users gave Coastal Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Horizon Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Coastal Financial. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Horizon Bancorp and 3 mentions for Coastal Financial. Horizon Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Coastal Financial's score of 0.35 indicating that Coastal Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Horizon Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential downside of 1.19%. Coastal Financial has a consensus target price of $54.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.46%. Given Horizon Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Coastal Financial is more favorable than Horizon Bancorp.
Summary
Coastal Financial beats Horizon Bancorp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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