CTBI vs. LBAI, UVSP, FCBC, GSBC, OBNK, QCRH, MBWM, GABC, EGBN, and CPF
Should you be buying Community Trust Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Trust Bancorp include Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Univest Financial (UVSP), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), QCR (QCRH), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), German American Bancorp (GABC), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), and Central Pacific Financial (CPF). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) and Lakeland Bancorp (NASDAQ:LBAI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Community Trust Bancorp has a net margin of 22.64% compared to Lakeland Bancorp's net margin of 16.00%. Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity of 11.52% beat Lakeland Bancorp's return on equity.
Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lakeland Bancorp has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Community Trust Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Lakeland Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp and 1 mentions for Lakeland Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Lakeland Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lakeland Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Community Trust Bancorp. Lakeland Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Trust Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lakeland Bancorp received 63 more outperform votes than Community Trust Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.69% of users gave Lakeland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.34% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote.
60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.6% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Community Trust Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.04%. Lakeland Bancorp has a consensus price target of $14.15, suggesting a potential upside of 9.35%. Given Community Trust Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Community Trust Bancorp is more favorable than Lakeland Bancorp.
Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Lakeland Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lakeland Bancorp pays out 45.3% 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.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats Lakeland Bancorp on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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