CHCO vs. NWBI, FCF, NBHC, HOPE, WABC, PB, SNV, BOKF, WTFC, and ONB
Should you be buying City stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City include Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), National Bank (NBHC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Synovus Financial (SNV), BOK Financial (BOKF), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), and Old National Bancorp (ONB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
City (NASDAQ:CHCO) and Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, Northwest Bancshares had 6 more articles in the media than City. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Northwest Bancshares and 12 mentions for City. City's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of 0.75 indicating that City is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.4% of City shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of City shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northwest Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than City. Northwest Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
City has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
City presently has a consensus price target of $106.75, indicating a potential downside of 13.42%. Northwest Bancshares has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 22.86%. Given City's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe City is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
Northwest Bancshares received 26 more outperform votes than City when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.68% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 49.90% of users gave City an outperform vote.
City has a net margin of 32.12% compared to Northwest Bancshares' net margin of 14.28%. City's return on equity of 17.42% beat Northwest Bancshares' return on equity.
City pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. City pays out 36.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Northwest Bancshares pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
City beats Northwest Bancshares on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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