EGBN vs. CTBI, GSBC, FCBC, GABC, HTBK, LBAI, UVSP, MBWM, CCBG, and RBCAA
Should you be buying Eagle Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bancorp include Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), German American Bancorp (GABC), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Univest Financial (UVSP), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), and Republic Bancorp (RBCAA). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Eagle Bancorp vs.
Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) and Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Community Trust Bancorp has a net margin of 27.62% compared to Community Trust Bancorp's net margin of 23.63%. Eagle Bancorp's return on equity of 12.65% beat Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity.
Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 40.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Bancorp pays out 42.9% 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 and Eagle Bancorp has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Community Trust Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than Eagle Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp and 2 mentions for Eagle Bancorp. Eagle Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Community Trust Bancorp's score of 0.67 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Community Trust Bancorp. Eagle 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 beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
58.7% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Bancorp has a consensus price target of $34.00, indicating a potential upside of 56.61%. Given Community Trust Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Eagle Bancorp is more favorable than Community Trust Bancorp.
Eagle Bancorp received 115 more outperform votes than Community Trust Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.83% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.24% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats Eagle Bancorp on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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