EGBN vs. GSBC, FCBC, CTBI, MBWM, UVSP, HBNC, LBAI, CPF, HTBK, and FMNB
Should you be buying Eagle Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bancorp include Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), Univest Financial (UVSP), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Heritage Commerce (HTBK), and Farmers National Banc (FMNB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) and Great Southern Bancorp (NASDAQ:GSBC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.6% of Great Southern Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Great Southern Bancorp. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Southern Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Great Southern Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Eagle Bancorp pays out 54.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Great Southern Bancorp pays out 28.4% 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.
Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Southern Bancorp has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Bancorp received 107 more outperform votes than Great Southern Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.18% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 55.83% of users gave Great Southern Bancorp an outperform vote.
Eagle Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $30.50, indicating a potential upside of 29.84%. Great Southern Bancorp has a consensus price target of $57.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.89%. Given Eagle Bancorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Eagle Bancorp is more favorable than Great Southern Bancorp.
Great Southern Bancorp has a net margin of 20.74% compared to Eagle Bancorp's net margin of 15.54%. Great Southern Bancorp's return on equity of 12.30% beat Eagle Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Great Southern Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Eagle Bancorp and 3 mentions for Great Southern Bancorp. Great Southern Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Eagle Bancorp's score of 0.10 indicating that Great Southern Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Eagle Bancorp and Great Southern Bancorp tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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