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Glacier Bancorp (GBCI) Competitors

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$47.08 +0.71 (+1.53%)
As of 07/3/2025 03:30 PM Eastern

GBCI vs. ABCB, BANR, CATY, FFBC, PPBI, SSB, TOWN, UBSI, WSFS, and HOMB

Should you be buying Glacier Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Glacier Bancorp include Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), Banner (BANR), Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), SouthState (SSB), Towne Bank (TOWN), United Bankshares (UBSI), WSFS Financial (WSFS), and Home BancShares (HOMB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Glacier Bancorp vs. Its Competitors

Glacier Bancorp (NASDAQ:GBCI) and Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ:ABCB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.

Ameris Bancorp has a net margin of 21.46% compared to Glacier Bancorp's net margin of 14.99%. Ameris Bancorp's return on equity of 9.57% beat Glacier Bancorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Glacier Bancorp14.99% 5.98% 0.68%
Ameris Bancorp 21.46%9.57%1.32%

Glacier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Ameris Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Glacier Bancorp pays out 71.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ameris Bancorp pays out 14.8% 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.

Ameris Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Glacier Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glacier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Glacier Bancorp$836.32M6.39$190.14M$1.8625.31
Ameris Bancorp$1.12B4.15$358.68M$5.4012.54

80.2% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Ameris Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Ameris Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Glacier Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Ameris Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Glacier Bancorp and 5 mentions for Ameris Bancorp. Glacier Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Ameris Bancorp's score of 0.67 indicating that Glacier Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Glacier Bancorp
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ameris Bancorp
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Glacier Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $50.83, suggesting a potential upside of 7.97%. Ameris Bancorp has a consensus price target of $71.43, suggesting a potential upside of 5.45%. Given Glacier Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Glacier Bancorp is more favorable than Ameris Bancorp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Glacier Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Ameris Bancorp
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

Glacier Bancorp has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameris Bancorp has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Ameris Bancorp beats Glacier Bancorp on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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GBCI vs. The Competition

MetricGlacier BancorpState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$5.34B$1.34B$12.08B$9.02B
Dividend Yield2.80%7.74%5.53%3.99%
P/E Ratio28.1915.6620.0520.25
Price / Sales6.393.4325.67119.26
Price / Cash27.5410.4918.7128.59
Price / Book1.661.062.285.65
Net Income$190.14M$648.53M$998.26M$249.15M
7 Day Performance8.96%3.43%2.08%2.91%
1 Month Performance11.08%4.23%4.18%4.11%
1 Year Performance29.13%17.94%542.25%20.98%

Glacier Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GBCI
Glacier Bancorp
2.0694 of 5 stars
$47.08
+1.5%
$50.83
+8.0%
+29.1%$5.34B$836.32M28.193,550
ABCB
Ameris Bancorp
2.6177 of 5 stars
$64.77
-0.2%
$71.43
+10.3%
+38.4%$4.46B$1.12B12.432,850
BANR
Banner
2.8708 of 5 stars
$64.15
+0.2%
$70.83
+10.4%
+45.0%$2.22B$832.99M12.601,956Positive News
CATY
Cathay General Bancorp
3.9071 of 5 stars
$45.53
-0.3%
$50.17
+10.2%
+32.3%$3.19B$742.38M11.501,266
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
4.5176 of 5 stars
$24.26
-0.4%
$28.75
+18.5%
+19.1%$2.32B$840.71M10.072,090
PPBI
Pacific Premier Bancorp
3.7216 of 5 stars
$21.09
+0.1%
$27.25
+29.2%
+5.1%$2.05B$905.41M13.881,325
SSB
SouthState
4.4351 of 5 stars
$92.07
+1.2%
$116.27
+26.3%
+28.4%$9.34B$1.88B13.235,030Positive News
TOWN
Towne Bank
3.8976 of 5 stars
$34.18
-0.5%
$40.00
+17.0%
+34.4%$2.56B$1.03B14.482,720Positive News
UBSI
United Bankshares
3.171 of 5 stars
$36.43
flat
$40.63
+11.5%
+21.7%$5.18B$1.07B13.542,553Positive News
Analyst Revision
WSFS
WSFS Financial
4.2243 of 5 stars
$55.00
-0.1%
$62.75
+14.1%
+28.1%$3.12B$1.40B12.362,309Positive News
HOMB
Home BancShares
3.225 of 5 stars
$28.46
-0.4%
$32.40
+13.8%
+26.8%$5.62B$1.47B13.552,552

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This page (NASDAQ:GBCI) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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