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HFWA vs. BANR, BUSE, CTBI, FFBC, FRME, HOPE, PPBI, STBA, TCBK, and UBSI

Should you be buying Heritage Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Heritage Financial include Banner (BANR), First Busey (BUSE), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), First Merchants (FRME), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), S&T Bancorp (STBA), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), and United Bankshares (UBSI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Heritage Financial vs. Its Competitors

Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) and Banner (NASDAQ:BANR) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.

Heritage Financial presently has a consensus price target of $27.67, suggesting a potential upside of 22.96%. Banner has a consensus price target of $70.17, suggesting a potential upside of 12.84%. Given Heritage Financial's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Heritage Financial is more favorable than Banner.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Heritage Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Banner
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

Heritage Financial has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banner has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Heritage Financial$225.94M3.40$43.26M$1.4315.73
Banner$832.99M2.58$168.90M$5.2511.84

Banner has a net margin of 21.15% compared to Heritage Financial's net margin of 15.22%. Banner's return on equity of 10.06% beat Heritage Financial's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Heritage Financial15.22% 7.34% 0.90%
Banner 21.15%10.06%1.13%

Heritage Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Banner pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Heritage Financial pays out 67.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Banner pays out 36.6% 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. Heritage Financial has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Heritage Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

78.3% of Heritage Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Banner shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Heritage Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Banner shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Banner had 1 more articles in the media than Heritage Financial. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Banner and 5 mentions for Heritage Financial. Banner's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Heritage Financial's score of 1.03 indicating that Banner is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Heritage Financial
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Banner
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Banner beats Heritage Financial on 13 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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HFWA vs. The Competition

MetricHeritage FinancialFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$767.39M$592.52M$12.13B$9.50B
Dividend Yield4.26%3.49%5.65%4.13%
P/E Ratio15.739.9119.9224.38
Price / Sales3.401.9226.12171.94
Price / Cash11.1514.5718.0027.20
Price / Book0.890.962.225.77
Net Income$43.26M$36.33M$999.86M$264.99M
7 Day Performance-4.21%-2.32%-1.19%-2.17%
1 Month Performance-12.14%-2.80%-0.47%7.01%
1 Year Performance-0.13%6.49%541.97%20.73%

Heritage Financial Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HFWA
Heritage Financial
4.3239 of 5 stars
$22.50
+1.7%
$27.67
+23.0%
-1.8%$767.39M$225.94M15.73830Positive News
BANR
Banner
3.1316 of 5 stars
$65.14
+0.1%
$70.17
+7.7%
+11.3%$2.25B$832.99M12.411,956Positive News
Dividend Announcement
BUSE
First Busey
4.966 of 5 stars
$23.03
-0.8%
$27.17
+18.0%
-13.5%$2.08B$663.36M20.561,548
CTBI
Community Trust Bancorp
4.4635 of 5 stars
$55.78
+0.1%
$59.50
+6.7%
+11.1%$1.01B$376.01M10.98980Positive News
FFBC
First Financial Bancorp.
4.5957 of 5 stars
$25.21
+1.4%
$29.00
+15.0%
-6.3%$2.38B$1.62B10.082,090
FRME
First Merchants
4.8868 of 5 stars
$40.05
+0.6%
$46.20
+15.4%
-0.7%$2.32B$1.07B10.382,120
HOPE
Hope Bancorp
4.8521 of 5 stars
$10.37
-0.4%
$13.50
+30.2%
-20.5%$1.33B$1.00B29.631,244Positive News
Ex-Dividend
PPBI
Pacific Premier Bancorp
4.1143 of 5 stars
$22.34
-1.0%
$27.50
+23.1%
-14.2%$2.19B$905.41M15.731,325Positive News
Analyst Revision
STBA
S&T Bancorp
4.1167 of 5 stars
$37.68
+0.0%
$42.00
+11.5%
-13.5%$1.44B$564.96M11.051,206Dividend Announcement
TCBK
TriCo Bancshares
3.5799 of 5 stars
$43.55
+1.8%
$47.60
+9.3%
-5.8%$1.41B$531.04M12.811,201
UBSI
United Bankshares
4.1234 of 5 stars
$36.81
+1.7%
$40.50
+10.0%
-3.7%$5.14B$1.63B13.012,553Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:HFWA) was last updated on 8/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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