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$103.11 -1.34 (-1.28%)
Closing price 07/11/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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BOKF vs. ABCB, CATY, FFBC, HWC, PPBI, WTFC, ASB, FNB, HOMB, and SNV

Should you be buying BOK Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BOK Financial include Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Hancock Whitney (HWC), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Associated Banc (ASB), F.N.B. (FNB), Home BancShares (HOMB), and Synovus Financial (SNV). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

BOK Financial vs. Its Competitors

Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ:ABCB) and BOK Financial (NASDAQ:BOKF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.

Ameris Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOK Financial has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

91.6% of Ameris Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of BOK Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Ameris Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 56.9% of BOK Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Ameris Bancorp has a net margin of 21.46% compared to BOK Financial's net margin of 16.39%. Ameris Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat BOK Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ameris Bancorp21.46% 9.57% 1.32%
BOK Financial 16.39%9.51%1.05%

Ameris Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. BOK Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Ameris Bancorp pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BOK Financial pays out 26.2% 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. BOK Financial has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. BOK Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Ameris Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $71.43, indicating a potential upside of 6.14%. BOK Financial has a consensus target price of $110.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.17%. Given BOK Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BOK Financial is more favorable than Ameris Bancorp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ameris Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
BOK Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.27

BOK Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Ameris Bancorp. BOK Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ameris Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ameris Bancorp$1.12B4.13$358.68M$5.4012.46
BOK Financial$3.48B1.91$523.57M$8.7011.85

In the previous week, BOK Financial had 7 more articles in the media than Ameris Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for BOK Financial and 1 mentions for Ameris Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat BOK Financial's score of 0.57 indicating that Ameris Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ameris Bancorp
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
BOK Financial
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Ameris Bancorp beats BOK Financial on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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BOKF vs. The Competition

MetricBOK FinancialBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$6.71B$2.29B$12.07B$9.11B
Dividend Yield2.18%2.39%5.53%4.01%
P/E Ratio11.8513.4620.0420.25
Price / Sales1.912.4925.5199.65
Price / Cash11.3513.5821.6458.16
Price / Book1.191.362.285.49
Net Income$523.57M$143.71M$992.82M$250.27M
7 Day Performance0.15%-0.45%-0.23%4.80%
1 Month Performance7.34%5.00%2.76%7.68%
1 Year Performance8.05%24.04%536.06%16.36%

BOK Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BOKF
BOK Financial
4.42 of 5 stars
$103.11
-1.3%
$110.50
+7.2%
+9.0%$6.71B$3.48B11.855,056News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
ABCB
Ameris Bancorp
3.0849 of 5 stars
$64.77
-0.2%
$71.43
+10.3%
+23.8%$4.46B$1.12B12.432,850Positive News
CATY
Cathay General Bancorp
4.0881 of 5 stars
$45.53
-0.3%
$50.17
+10.2%
+21.9%$3.20B$1.39B11.501,266
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
4.5652 of 5 stars
$24.26
-0.4%
$28.75
+18.5%
+9.0%$2.33B$1.62B10.072,090Analyst Downgrade
HWC
Hancock Whitney
4.5643 of 5 stars
$57.40
-0.4%
$61.25
+6.7%
+19.5%$4.94B$2.06B10.593,476News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
PPBI
Pacific Premier Bancorp
3.7735 of 5 stars
$21.09
+0.1%
$27.25
+29.2%
-9.6%$2.04B$905.41M13.881,325
WTFC
Wintrust Financial
4.6053 of 5 stars
$123.98
+0.5%
$135.77
+9.5%
+27.0%$8.25B$3.97B12.265,903Analyst Forecast
ASB
Associated Banc
4.8372 of 5 stars
$24.40
-0.2%
$26.00
+6.6%
+18.3%$4.05B$2.39B28.374,000News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
FNB
F.N.B.
3.9451 of 5 stars
$14.59
+0.3%
$17.57
+20.4%
+9.8%$5.24B$2.57B11.584,280Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
HOMB
Home BancShares
3.4963 of 5 stars
$28.46
-0.4%
$32.40
+13.8%
+17.9%$5.64B$1.47B13.552,552Upcoming Earnings
SNV
Synovus Financial
4.5246 of 5 stars
$51.80
+0.2%
$56.56
+9.2%
+28.7%$7.19B$3.43B14.514,775News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:BOKF) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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