Peoples Bancorp (PEBO) Competitors

Peoples Bancorp (NASDAQ:PEBO) and BancFirst (NASDAQ:BANF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of PEBO or BANF?

60.7% of Peoples Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.7% of BancFirst shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of Peoples Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.4% of BancFirst shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more risk and volatility, PEBO or BANF?

Peoples Bancorp has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BancFirst has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PEBO or BANF a better dividend stock?

Peoples Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. BancFirst pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Peoples Bancorp pays out 52.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BancFirst pays out 27.8% 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. BancFirst has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years.

Is PEBO or BANF more profitable?

BancFirst has a net margin of 23.52% compared to Peoples Bancorp's net margin of 18.90%. BancFirst's return on equity of 14.21% beat Peoples Bancorp's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Peoples Bancorp	18.90%	11.07%	1.31%
BancFirst	23.52%	14.21%	1.68%

Do analysts prefer PEBO or BANF?

Peoples Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $36.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.64%. BancFirst has a consensus price target of $113.33, indicating a potential downside of 6.51%. Given Peoples Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Peoples Bancorp is more favorable than BancFirst.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Peoples Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
BancFirst	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.67

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PEBO or BANF?

Peoples Bancorp received 54 more outperform votes than BancFirst when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.03% of users gave Peoples Bancorp an outperform vote while only 52.63% of users gave BancFirst an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Peoples Bancorp	Outperform Votes 274 56.03%	Underperform Votes 215 43.97%
BancFirst	Outperform Votes 220 52.63%	Underperform Votes 198 47.37%

Does the media prefer PEBO or BANF?

In the previous week, Peoples Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than BancFirst. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Peoples Bancorp and 9 mentions for BancFirst. BancFirst's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Peoples Bancorp's score of 0.50 indicating that BancFirst is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Peoples Bancorp	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
BancFirst	7 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, PEBO or BANF?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Peoples Bancorp	$444.62M	2.39	$117.21M	$3.15	9.47
BancFirst	$645.29M	6.25	$216.35M	$6.61	18.34

Summary

BancFirst beats Peoples Bancorp on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.