LBAI vs. CTBI, CNOB, SBSI, EGBN, OBNK, GSBC, FCBC, RBCAA, MBWM, and UVSP
Should you be buying Lakeland Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lakeland Bancorp include Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), and Univest Financial (UVSP). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Lakeland Bancorp (NASDAQ:LBAI) and Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
Lakeland Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Lakeland Bancorp pays out 45.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 42.3% 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.
Lakeland Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $16.65, indicating a potential upside of 47.87%. Community Trust Bancorp has a consensus target price of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.21%. Given Lakeland Bancorp's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lakeland Bancorp is more favorable than Community Trust Bancorp.
Lakeland Bancorp received 63 more outperform votes than Community Trust Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.93% of users gave Lakeland Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.34% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote.
Lakeland Bancorp has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Community Trust Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Lakeland Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp and 6 mentions for Lakeland Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Lakeland Bancorp's score of 0.82 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Community Trust Bancorp has a net margin of 23.91% compared to Lakeland Bancorp's net margin of 16.42%. Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity of 11.68% beat Lakeland Bancorp's return on equity.
59.6% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Lakeland Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lakeland Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Community Trust Bancorp. Lakeland Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Community Trust Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats Lakeland Bancorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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