STEL vs. WABC, NBHC, HOPE, FCF, CHCO, SASR, NBTB, TRMK, WSBC, and TBBK
Should you be buying Stellarone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stellarone include Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), National Bank (NBHC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), City (CHCO), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Trustmark (TRMK), WesBanco (WSBC), and Bancorp (TBBK). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Stellarone (NASDAQ:STEL) and Westamerica Bancorporation (NASDAQ:WABC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
54.2% of Stellarone shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Westamerica Bancorporation shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of Stellarone shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Westamerica Bancorporation shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Stellarone currently has a consensus price target of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.95%. Westamerica Bancorporation has a consensus price target of $53.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.77%. Given Stellarone's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Stellarone is more favorable than Westamerica Bancorporation.
Westamerica Bancorporation received 162 more outperform votes than Stellarone when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.46% of users gave Stellarone an outperform vote while only 50.42% of users gave Westamerica Bancorporation an outperform vote.
Westamerica Bancorporation has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stellarone. Westamerica Bancorporation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stellarone, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Westamerica Bancorporation has a net margin of 48.35% compared to Stellarone's net margin of 21.21%. Westamerica Bancorporation's return on equity of 21.99% beat Stellarone's return on equity.
In the previous week, Westamerica Bancorporation had 13 more articles in the media than Stellarone. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Westamerica Bancorporation and 6 mentions for Stellarone. Westamerica Bancorporation's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Stellarone's score of 0.00 indicating that Westamerica Bancorporation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stellarone pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Westamerica Bancorporation pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Stellarone pays out 21.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westamerica Bancorporation pays out 29.7% 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.
Stellarone has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westamerica Bancorporation has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Westamerica Bancorporation beats Stellarone on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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