CTBI vs. LBAI, EGBN, SBSI, GSBC, FCBC, OBNK, MBWM, UVSP, RBCAA, and CPF
Should you be buying Community Trust Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Trust Bancorp include Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Univest Financial (UVSP), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), and Central Pacific Financial (CPF). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Lakeland Bancorp (NASDAQ:LBAI) and Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
59.6% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lakeland Bancorp has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lakeland Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $14.15, indicating a potential upside of 10.20%. Community Trust Bancorp has a consensus target price of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.75%. Given Lakeland Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Community Trust Bancorp is more favorable than Lakeland Bancorp.
Lakeland Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Lakeland Bancorp pays out 45.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 42.7% 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. Community Trust Bancorp has increased its dividend for 43 consecutive years.
Lakeland Bancorp received 63 more outperform votes than Community Trust Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.69% of users gave Lakeland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.34% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lakeland Bancorp had 8 more articles in the media than Community Trust Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Lakeland Bancorp and 6 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp. Lakeland Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Community Trust Bancorp's score of 0.45 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lakeland Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Community Trust Bancorp. Lakeland Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Trust Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Community Trust Bancorp has a net margin of 22.64% compared to Community Trust Bancorp's net margin of 16.00%. Lakeland Bancorp's return on equity of 11.52% beat Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats Lakeland Bancorp on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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