EFSC vs. BANR, HTLF, RNST, LKFN, COLB, TOWN, BOH, SYBT, SBCF, and FBNC
Should you be buying Enterprise Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enterprise Financial Services include Banner (BANR), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Renasant (RNST), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Columbia Banking System (COLB), TowneBank (TOWN), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), and First Bancorp (FBNC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Enterprise Financial Services vs.
Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) and Enterprise Financial Services (NASDAQ:EFSC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
In the previous week, Enterprise Financial Services had 1 more articles in the media than Banner. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Enterprise Financial Services and 2 mentions for Banner. Enterprise Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Banner's score of 0.04 indicating that Enterprise Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banner pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Enterprise Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Banner pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Enterprise Financial Services pays out 18.8% 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. Banner has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Enterprise Financial Services has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Banner received 46 more outperform votes than Enterprise Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.85% of users gave Banner an outperform vote while only 57.62% of users gave Enterprise Financial Services an outperform vote.
Enterprise Financial Services has a net margin of 35.36% compared to Banner's net margin of 30.16%. Enterprise Financial Services' return on equity of 14.48% beat Banner's return on equity.
85.3% of Banner shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.9% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Banner shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Enterprise Financial Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Enterprise Financial Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Banner. Enterprise Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Banner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Banner has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enterprise Financial Services has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Banner currently has a consensus target price of $67.60, indicating a potential upside of 24.13%. Enterprise Financial Services has a consensus target price of $56.67, indicating a potential upside of 23.83%. Given Banner's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Banner is more favorable than Enterprise Financial Services.
Summary
Enterprise Financial Services beats Banner on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding EFSC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Enterprise Financial Services Competitors List
