OZK vs. CADE, HOMB, PB, UBSI, SSB, WTFC, FFIN, GBCI, BPOP, and COLB
Should you be buying Bank OZK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank OZK include Cadence Bank (CADE), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), United Bankshares (UBSI), SouthState (SSB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Popular (BPOP), and Columbia Banking System (COLB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Cadence Bank (NYSE:CADE) and Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Bank OZK had 8 more articles in the media than Cadence Bank. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Bank OZK and 2 mentions for Cadence Bank. Bank OZK's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Cadence Bank's score of 0.75 indicating that Cadence Bank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cadence Bank received 132 more outperform votes than Bank OZK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.92% of users gave Cadence Bank an outperform vote while only 47.27% of users gave Bank OZK an outperform vote.
84.6% of Cadence Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.2% of Bank OZK shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Cadence Bank shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Bank OZK shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bank OZK has a net margin of 28.54% compared to Bank OZK's net margin of 23.83%. Cadence Bank's return on equity of 14.84% beat Bank OZK's return on equity.
Cadence Bank presently has a consensus target price of $31.09, suggesting a potential upside of 5.14%. Bank OZK has a consensus target price of $49.14, suggesting a potential upside of 1.49%. Given Bank OZK's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cadence Bank is more favorable than Bank OZK.
Bank OZK has higher revenue and earnings than Cadence Bank. Bank OZK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadence Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cadence Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Bank OZK pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Cadence Bank pays out 31.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank OZK pays out 26.1% 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. Cadence Bank has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Bank OZK has raised its dividend for 28 consecutive years.
Cadence Bank has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank OZK has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bank OZK beats Cadence Bank on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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