HBT vs. MBWM, MCBS, FCBC, IBCP, CCBG, BOH, CVBF, INDB, PPBI, and HTH
Should you be buying HBT Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HBT Financial include Mercantile Bank (MBWM), MetroCity Bankshares (MCBS), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Independent Bank (IBCP), Capital City Bank Group (CCBG), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), CVB Financial (CVBF), Independent Bank (INDB), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), and Hilltop (HTH). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Mercantile Bank (NASDAQ:MBWM) and HBT Financial (NASDAQ:HBT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
58.6% of Mercantile Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of HBT Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Mercantile Bank shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 59.8% of HBT Financial shares are held by company 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.
Mercantile Bank presently has a consensus target price of $47.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.68%. HBT Financial has a consensus target price of $22.17, suggesting a potential upside of 13.68%. Given HBT Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Mercantile Bank is more favorable than HBT Financial.
Mercantile Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. HBT Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Mercantile Bank pays out 27.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HBT Financial pays out 33.6% 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. Mercantile Bank has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and HBT Financial has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Mercantile Bank has higher revenue and earnings than HBT Financial. Mercantile Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HBT Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mercantile Bank received 284 more outperform votes than HBT Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.97% of users gave Mercantile Bank an outperform vote while only 44.64% of users gave HBT Financial an outperform vote.
Mercantile Bank has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HBT Financial has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mercantile Bank and Mercantile Bank both had 1 articles in the media. Mercantile Bank's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat HBT Financial's score of 0.47 indicating that HBT Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HBT Financial has a net margin of 26.29% compared to HBT Financial's net margin of 25.58%. HBT Financial's return on equity of 16.39% beat Mercantile Bank's return on equity.
Summary
Mercantile Bank beats HBT Financial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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