PEBO vs. GABC, RBCAA, PFBC, TCBK, SBSI, STBA, SRCE, LBAI, BUSE, and CTBI
Should you be buying Peoples Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Peoples Bancorp include German American Bancorp (GABC), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), Preferred Bank (PFBC), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), S&T Bancorp (STBA), 1st Source (SRCE), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), First Busey (BUSE), and Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Peoples Bancorp (NASDAQ:PEBO) and German American Bancorp (NASDAQ:GABC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership and earnings.
Peoples Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $33.40, indicating a potential upside of 12.04%. German American Bancorp has a consensus price target of $37.50, indicating a potential upside of 15.42%. Given German American Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe German American Bancorp is more favorable than Peoples Bancorp.
In the previous week, Peoples Bancorp had 14 more articles in the media than German American Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Peoples Bancorp and 5 mentions for German American Bancorp. German American Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Peoples Bancorp's score of 0.15 indicating that German American Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
German American Bancorp has a net margin of 27.10% compared to Peoples Bancorp's net margin of 20.17%. German American Bancorp's return on equity of 14.26% beat Peoples Bancorp's return on equity.
Peoples Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. German American Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Peoples Bancorp pays out 46.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. German American Bancorp pays out 37.0% 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.
60.7% of Peoples Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of German American Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Peoples Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of German American Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Peoples Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than German American Bancorp. Peoples Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than German American Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Peoples Bancorp received 18 more outperform votes than German American Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.04% of users gave Peoples Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.75% of users gave German American Bancorp an outperform vote.
Peoples Bancorp has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, German American Bancorp has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Peoples Bancorp beats German American Bancorp on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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