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$45.69 -0.10 (-0.21%)
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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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Glacier Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $50.83, indicating a potential upside of 11.25%. Ameris Bancorp has a consensus price target of $71.43, indicating a potential upside of 6.07%. Given Glacier Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities research 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.

In the previous week, Ameris Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than Glacier Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Ameris Bancorp and 6 mentions for Glacier Bancorp. Ameris Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Glacier Bancorp's score of 1.04 indicating that Ameris Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

Glacier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. 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$836.32M6.20$190.14M$1.8624.57
Ameris Bancorp$1.12B4.13$358.68M$5.4012.47

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%

Summary

Ameris Bancorp beats Glacier Bancorp on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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GBCI vs. The Competition

MetricGlacier BancorpState commercial banks IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$5.19B$1.39B$12.11B$9.41B
Dividend Yield2.83%8.93%5.56%4.03%
P/E Ratio27.369.4818.3720.09
Price / Sales6.203.3326.0799.01
Price / Cash27.549.9621.6858.27
Price / Book1.610.982.315.65
Net Income$190.14M$756.71M$997.60M$257.91M
7 Day Performance-1.10%-0.35%0.42%2.09%
1 Month Performance13.05%4.57%4.37%11.13%
1 Year Performance5.60%2.83%541.75%18.40%

Glacier Bancorp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GBCI
Glacier Bancorp
2.9551 of 5 stars
$45.69
-0.2%
$50.83
+11.3%
+3.4%$5.19B$836.32M27.363,550Positive News
ABCB
Ameris Bancorp
3.3438 of 5 stars
$68.18
+1.1%
$71.43
+4.8%
+13.8%$4.70B$1.12B13.092,850Positive News
BANR
Banner
3.6071 of 5 stars
$69.40
+1.0%
$70.83
+2.1%
+13.4%$2.40B$832.99M13.631,956News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
CATY
Cathay General Bancorp
4.1737 of 5 stars
$49.26
+2.4%
$50.17
+1.8%
+12.9%$3.45B$1.39B12.441,266News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
4.5627 of 5 stars
$25.78
+1.3%
$28.75
+11.5%
-5.4%$2.47B$1.62B10.702,090Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
PPBI
Pacific Premier Bancorp
3.8203 of 5 stars
$22.56
+0.9%
$27.25
+20.8%
-19.9%$2.19B$541.46M14.841,325News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
SSB
SouthState
4.6094 of 5 stars
$98.72
+1.6%
$116.45
+18.0%
+7.8%$10.02B$1.88B14.185,030Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
TOWN
Towne Bank
3.5203 of 5 stars
$35.75
+1.0%
$40.00
+11.9%
+14.7%$2.68B$1.03B15.152,720News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
UBSI
United Bankshares
2.9731 of 5 stars
$37.95
+1.0%
$40.63
+7.0%
-0.5%$5.39B$1.63B14.112,553News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
WSFS
WSFS Financial
3.4638 of 5 stars
$58.98
+1.3%
$62.75
+6.4%
+5.1%$3.35B$1.05B13.252,309News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
HOMB
Home BancShares
3.6279 of 5 stars
$29.51
+0.5%
$32.40
+9.8%
+8.6%$5.83B$1.01B14.052,552News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:GBCI) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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