FBNC vs. SYBT, EFSC, BUSE, HTLF, SRCE, BANR, STBA, LKFN, TCBK, and PFBC
Should you be buying First Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Bancorp include Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), First Busey (BUSE), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), 1st Source (SRCE), Banner (BANR), S&T Bancorp (STBA), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), and Preferred Bank (PFBC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Stock Yards Bancorp (NASDAQ:SYBT) and First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Stock Yards Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.27%. First Bancorp has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.60%. Given First Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Stock Yards Bancorp is more favorable than First Bancorp.
First Bancorp received 191 more outperform votes than Stock Yards Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.13% of users gave First Bancorp an outperform vote while only 54.06% of users gave Stock Yards Bancorp an outperform vote.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a net margin of 24.54% compared to Stock Yards Bancorp's net margin of 19.06%. First Bancorp's return on equity of 13.20% beat Stock Yards Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Stock Yards Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than First Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Stock Yards Bancorp and 7 mentions for First Bancorp. Stock Yards Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat First Bancorp's score of 0.51 indicating that First Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
56.5% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.4% of First Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Stock Yards Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of First Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Stock Yards Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. First Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Stock Yards Bancorp pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Bancorp pays out 34.8% 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. Stock Yards Bancorp has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years.
Stock Yards Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than First Bancorp. First Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stock Yards Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stock Yards Bancorp has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Bancorp has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
Stock Yards Bancorp beats First Bancorp on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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