BPOP vs. UBSI, WTFC, HOMB, FFIN, WAL, SSB, GBCI, IBOC, UCBI, and PB
Should you be buying Popular stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Popular include United Bankshares (UBSI), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), SouthState (SSB), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), International Bancshares (IBOC), United Community Banks (UCBI), and Prosperity Bancshares (PB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Popular vs.
United Bankshares (NASDAQ:UBSI) and Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
Popular received 168 more outperform votes than United Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.66% of users gave Popular an outperform vote while only 48.29% of users gave United Bankshares an outperform vote.
United Bankshares has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Popular has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Popular has higher revenue and earnings than United Bankshares. Popular is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United Bankshares currently has a consensus target price of $39.00, suggesting a potential upside of 30.00%. Popular has a consensus target price of $70.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.34%. Given United Bankshares' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe United Bankshares is more favorable than Popular.
United Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. United Bankshares pays out 49.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Popular pays out 15.4% 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. Popular has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
68.7% of United Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.0% of Popular shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of United Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Popular shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
United Bankshares has a net margin of 31.24% compared to Popular's net margin of 29.29%. Popular's return on equity of 25.51% beat United Bankshares' return on equity.
In the previous week, United Bankshares had 2 more articles in the media than Popular. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for United Bankshares and 7 mentions for Popular. United Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Popular's score of 0.88 indicating that United Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Popular beats United Bankshares on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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