STBA vs. TCBK, SRCE, PFBC, BUSE, SYBT, PEBO, FBNC, GABC, RBCAA, and SBSI
Should you be buying S&T Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&T Bancorp include TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), 1st Source (SRCE), Preferred Bank (PFBC), First Busey (BUSE), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), First Bancorp (FBNC), German American Bancorp (GABC), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), and Southside Bancshares (SBSI). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
S&T Bancorp (NASDAQ:STBA) and TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
65.2% of S&T Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.1% of TriCo Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of S&T Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of TriCo Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
S&T Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.16%. TriCo Bancshares has a consensus target price of $42.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.08%. Given TriCo Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TriCo Bancshares is more favorable than S&T Bancorp.
S&T Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. TriCo Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. S&T Bancorp pays out 37.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TriCo Bancshares pays out 37.5% 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. S&T Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
S&T Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than TriCo Bancshares. S&T Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TriCo Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&T Bancorp received 19 more outperform votes than TriCo Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.11% of users gave TriCo Bancshares an outperform vote while only 51.24% of users gave S&T Bancorp an outperform vote.
S&T Bancorp has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TriCo Bancshares has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, S&T Bancorp and S&T Bancorp both had 10 articles in the media. S&T Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat TriCo Bancshares' score of 0.36 indicating that S&T Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
S&T Bancorp has a net margin of 24.68% compared to TriCo Bancshares' net margin of 23.49%. S&T Bancorp's return on equity of 10.86% beat TriCo Bancshares' return on equity.
Summary
S&T Bancorp beats TriCo Bancshares on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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