BY vs. RBCAA, OBK, OBNK, QCRH, GABC, SBSI, PEBO, LBAI, PFBC, and CTBI
Should you be buying Byline Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Byline Bancorp include Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), QCR (QCRH), German American Bancorp (GABC), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Preferred Bank (PFBC), and Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Republic Bancorp (NASDAQ:RBCAA) and Byline Bancorp (NYSE:BY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Byline Bancorp received 4 more outperform votes than Republic Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.65% of users gave Byline Bancorp an outperform vote while only 57.64% of users gave Republic Bancorp an outperform vote.
Byline Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Republic Bancorp. Byline Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Republic Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Republic Bancorp has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Byline Bancorp has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Byline Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Republic Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Byline Bancorp and 7 mentions for Republic Bancorp. Republic Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Byline Bancorp's score of 0.07 indicating that Byline Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Byline Bancorp has a consensus target price of $26.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.28%. Given Republic Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Byline Bancorp is more favorable than Republic Bancorp.
24.4% of Republic Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Byline Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 55.5% of Republic Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 35.0% of Byline Bancorp 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.
Republic Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.63 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Byline Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Republic Bancorp pays out 34.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Byline Bancorp pays out 13.2% 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. Republic Bancorp has raised its dividend for 23 consecutive years. Republic Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Republic Bancorp has a net margin of 20.27% compared to Republic Bancorp's net margin of 19.91%. Republic Bancorp's return on equity of 13.54% beat Byline Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Byline Bancorp beats Republic Bancorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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