COLB vs. GBCI, IBOC, FFIN, ABCB, ASB, UCBI, UBSI, FBP, HOMB, and TCBI
Should you be buying Columbia Banking System stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Columbia Banking System include Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), International Bancshares (IBOC), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Associated Banc (ASB), United Community Banks (UCBI), United Bankshares (UBSI), First BanCorp. (FBP), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), and Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Columbia Banking System (NASDAQ:COLB) and Glacier Bancorp (NASDAQ:GBCI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Columbia Banking System pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Glacier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Columbia Banking System pays out 87.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Glacier Bancorp pays out 75.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Columbia Banking System currently has a consensus target price of $22.42, indicating a potential upside of 17.52%. Glacier Bancorp has a consensus target price of $40.40, indicating a potential upside of 5.26%. Given Columbia Banking System's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Columbia Banking System is more favorable than Glacier Bancorp.
Columbia Banking System received 3 more outperform votes than Glacier Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.19% of users gave Glacier Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.65% of users gave Columbia Banking System an outperform vote.
Columbia Banking System has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Glacier Bancorp has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Glacier Bancorp had 24 more articles in the media than Columbia Banking System. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Glacier Bancorp and 4 mentions for Columbia Banking System. Glacier Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Columbia Banking System's score of 0.04 indicating that Glacier Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Glacier Bancorp has a net margin of 16.40% compared to Columbia Banking System's net margin of 12.71%. Columbia Banking System's return on equity of 10.27% beat Glacier Bancorp's return on equity.
92.5% of Columbia Banking System shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.2% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Columbia Banking System shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held 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.
Columbia Banking System has higher revenue and earnings than Glacier Bancorp. Columbia Banking System is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glacier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Glacier Bancorp beats Columbia Banking System on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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