CHCO vs. TBBK, WSBC, NBTB, FCF, WABC, NBHC, HOPE, TRMK, FRME, and SASR
Should you be buying City stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City include Bancorp (TBBK), WesBanco (WSBC), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), National Bank (NBHC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), Trustmark (TRMK), First Merchants (FRME), and Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
City (NASDAQ:CHCO) and Bancorp (NASDAQ:TBBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.
72.4% of City shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of City shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than City. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Bancorp and 13 mentions for City. City's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Bancorp's score of 0.33 indicating that City is being referred to more favorably in the media.
City has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bancorp has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
City presently has a consensus target price of $106.75, indicating a potential upside of 2.18%. Bancorp has a consensus target price of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 53.51%. Given Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bancorp is more favorable than City.
Bancorp has a net margin of 39.94% compared to City's net margin of 33.78%. Bancorp's return on equity of 26.32% beat City's return on equity.
Bancorp received 95 more outperform votes than City when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.36% of users gave Bancorp an outperform vote while only 49.90% of users gave City an outperform vote.
Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than City. Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bancorp beats City on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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