SBSI vs. EGBN, VBTX, TBK, SRCE, TCBK, FULT, UCBI, FBP, BANF, and FIBK
Should you be buying Southside Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southside Bancshares include Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Veritex (VBTX), Triumph Financial (TBK), 1st Source (SRCE), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), Fulton Financial (FULT), United Community Banks (UCBI), First BanCorp. (FBP), BancFirst (BANF), and First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) and Southside Bancshares (NASDAQ:SBSI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Eagle Bancorp received 164 more outperform votes than Southside Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.44% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 42.61% of users gave Southside Bancshares an outperform vote.
78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of Southside Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Southside Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Eagle Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.77%. Southside Bancshares has a consensus price target of $31.00, suggesting a potential downside of 8.88%. Given Southside Bancshares' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Eagle Bancorp is more favorable than Southside Bancshares.
Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Southside Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Eagle Bancorp pays out 71.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Southside Bancshares pays out 53.5% 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. Southside Bancshares has raised its dividend for 30 consecutive years.
Southside Bancshares has a net margin of 19.79% compared to Southside Bancshares' net margin of -5.28%. Eagle Bancorp's return on equity of 10.80% beat Southside Bancshares' return on equity.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Southside Bancshares. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southside Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Southside Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Southside Bancshares had 3 more articles in the media than Eagle Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Southside Bancshares and 10 mentions for Eagle Bancorp. Southside Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Eagle Bancorp's score of 0.29 indicating that Eagle Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Southside Bancshares beats Eagle Bancorp on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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