RNST vs. OFG, FBK, LKFN, BANR, HTLF, LOB, EFSC, TOWN, HTH, and SBCF
Should you be buying Renasant stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Renasant include OFG Bancorp (OFG), FB Financial (FBK), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Banner (BANR), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), TowneBank (TOWN), Hilltop (HTH), and Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
OFG Bancorp (NYSE:OFG) and Renasant (NASDAQ:RNST) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
OFG Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Renasant pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. OFG Bancorp pays out 25.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Renasant pays out 35.8% 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. OFG Bancorp has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
OFG Bancorp has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Renasant has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
OFG Bancorp has a net margin of 23.00% compared to OFG Bancorp's net margin of 14.67%. Renasant's return on equity of 16.10% beat OFG Bancorp's return on equity.
OFG Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Renasant. OFG Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Renasant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
OFG Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.64%. Renasant has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.00%. Given OFG Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Renasant is more favorable than OFG Bancorp.
In the previous week, Renasant had 1 more articles in the media than OFG Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Renasant and 4 mentions for OFG Bancorp. OFG Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Renasant's score of 0.90 indicating that Renasant is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.7% of OFG Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.3% of Renasant shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of OFG Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Renasant shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Renasant received 78 more outperform votes than OFG Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.15% of users gave OFG Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.69% of users gave Renasant an outperform vote.
Summary
OFG Bancorp beats Renasant on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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