HTBK vs. FRME, RNST, SYBT, BANR, SBCF, TRMK, WSBC, NBTB, EFSC, and BUSE
Should you be buying Heritage Commerce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Heritage Commerce include First Merchants (FRME), Renasant (RNST), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Banner (BANR), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), Trustmark (TRMK), WesBanco (WSBC), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), and First Busey (BUSE). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Heritage Commerce vs.
Heritage Commerce (NASDAQ:HTBK) and First Merchants (NASDAQ:FRME) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and risk.
First Merchants has higher revenue and earnings than Heritage Commerce. First Merchants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heritage Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
First Merchants has a net margin of 18.76% compared to Heritage Commerce's net margin of 16.12%. First Merchants' return on equity of 9.23% beat Heritage Commerce's return on equity.
Heritage Commerce pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. First Merchants pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Heritage Commerce pays out 76.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. First Merchants pays out 40.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Merchants has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
75.6% of Heritage Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of First Merchants shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Heritage Commerce shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of First Merchants shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Heritage Commerce has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Merchants has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, First Merchants had 9 more articles in the media than Heritage Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for First Merchants and 4 mentions for Heritage Commerce. Heritage Commerce's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat First Merchants' score of 1.06 indicating that Heritage Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
First Merchants received 61 more outperform votes than Heritage Commerce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.40% of users gave First Merchants an outperform vote while only 58.43% of users gave Heritage Commerce an outperform vote.
Heritage Commerce currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.88%. First Merchants has a consensus price target of $46.40, suggesting a potential upside of 23.27%. Given First Merchants' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe First Merchants is more favorable than Heritage Commerce.
Summary
First Merchants beats Heritage Commerce on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:HTBK) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff