EGBN vs. TOWN, INDB, BKU, SFNC, FFBC, TBBK, BANR, FRME, SYBT, and TRMK
Should you be buying Eagle Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bancorp include TowneBank (TOWN), Independent Bank (INDB), BankUnited (BKU), Simmons First National (SFNC), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Bancorp (TBBK), Banner (BANR), First Merchants (FRME), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), and Trustmark (TRMK). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Eagle Bancorp vs.
TowneBank (NASDAQ:TOWN) and Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
TowneBank presently has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.29%. Eagle Bancorp has a consensus price target of $21.50, indicating a potential upside of 19.18%. Given TowneBank's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe TowneBank is more favorable than Eagle Bancorp.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp had 5 more articles in the media than TowneBank. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Eagle Bancorp and 11 mentions for TowneBank. TowneBank's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Eagle Bancorp's score of 0.14 indicating that TowneBank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TowneBank has a net margin of 15.77% compared to Eagle Bancorp's net margin of -6.65%. TowneBank's return on equity of 7.77% beat Eagle Bancorp's return on equity.
TowneBank pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. TowneBank pays out 42.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Bancorp pays out -44.0% 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. TowneBank has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Eagle Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
56.0% of TowneBank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of TowneBank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
TowneBank has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bancorp. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TowneBank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Bancorp received 129 more outperform votes than TowneBank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.61% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.03% of users gave TowneBank an outperform vote.
TowneBank has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
TowneBank beats Eagle Bancorp on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EGBN) was last updated on 5/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
