HBT vs. EGBN, GSBC, MCBS, MBWM, CPF, OSBC, UVSP, CFB, CCB, and HBNC
Should you be buying HBT Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HBT Financial include Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), MetroCity Bankshares (MCBS), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), Univest Financial (UVSP), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), Coastal Financial (CCB), and Horizon Bancorp (HBNC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
HBT Financial (NASDAQ:HBT) and Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
HBT Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. HBT Financial pays out 33.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Bancorp pays out 71.7% 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.
78.6% of HBT Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.8% of HBT Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HBT Financial has a net margin of 26.29% compared to Eagle Bancorp's net margin of 11.14%. HBT Financial's return on equity of 16.14% beat Eagle Bancorp's return on equity.
HBT Financial currently has a consensus price target of $22.17, indicating a potential upside of 13.27%. Eagle Bancorp has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.35%. Given Eagle Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eagle Bancorp is more favorable than HBT Financial.
HBT Financial has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Bancorp received 312 more outperform votes than HBT Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.86% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.64% of users gave HBT Financial an outperform vote.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than HBT Financial. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HBT Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HBT Financial had 6 more articles in the media than Eagle Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for HBT Financial and 2 mentions for Eagle Bancorp. HBT Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Eagle Bancorp's score of 0.79 indicating that HBT Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
HBT Financial beats Eagle Bancorp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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