NBTB vs. TRMK, WSBC, CHCO, TBBK, FCF, HOPE, NBHC, WABC, FRME, and FFBC
Should you be buying NBT Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NBT Bancorp include Trustmark (TRMK), WesBanco (WSBC), City (CHCO), Bancorp (TBBK), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), National Bank (NBHC), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), First Merchants (FRME), and First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
NBT Bancorp (NASDAQ:NBTB) and Trustmark (NASDAQ:TRMK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends and earnings.
NBT Bancorp has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trustmark has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
58.5% of NBT Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.6% of Trustmark shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of NBT Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Trustmark shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NBT Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Trustmark pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. NBT Bancorp pays out 49.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trustmark pays out 33.9% 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.
NBT Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $41.20, suggesting a potential upside of 14.76%. Trustmark has a consensus price target of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 1.04%. Given NBT Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NBT Bancorp is more favorable than Trustmark.
In the previous week, NBT Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Trustmark. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for NBT Bancorp and 15 mentions for Trustmark. Trustmark's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat NBT Bancorp's score of 0.53 indicating that Trustmark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Trustmark received 53 more outperform votes than NBT Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.38% of users gave NBT Bancorp an outperform vote while only 51.09% of users gave Trustmark an outperform vote.
Trustmark has higher revenue and earnings than NBT Bancorp. Trustmark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NBT Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NBT Bancorp has a net margin of 16.71% compared to Trustmark's net margin of 15.06%. Trustmark's return on equity of 10.77% beat NBT Bancorp's return on equity.
Summary
NBT Bancorp beats Trustmark on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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