TCBK vs. VBTX, STBA, PFBC, SRCE, PEBO, GABC, BUSE, RBCAA, SYBT, and FBNC
Should you be buying TriCo Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TriCo Bancshares include Veritex (VBTX), S&T Bancorp (STBA), Preferred Bank (PFBC), 1st Source (SRCE), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), German American Bancorp (GABC), First Busey (BUSE), Republic Bancorp (RBCAA), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), and First Bancorp (FBNC). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
TriCo Bancshares (NASDAQ:TCBK) and Veritex (NASDAQ:VBTX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
TriCo Bancshares has a net margin of 23.49% compared to Veritex's net margin of 14.51%. TriCo Bancshares' return on equity of 10.64% beat Veritex's return on equity.
TriCo Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Veritex. TriCo Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veritex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TriCo Bancshares has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veritex has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TriCo Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Veritex pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. TriCo Bancshares pays out 37.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Veritex pays out 40.4% 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.
TriCo Bancshares received 23 more outperform votes than Veritex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.23% of users gave TriCo Bancshares an outperform vote while only 51.24% of users gave Veritex an outperform vote.
TriCo Bancshares currently has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.25%. Veritex has a consensus target price of $24.13, indicating a potential upside of 24.36%. Given TriCo Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe TriCo Bancshares is more favorable than Veritex.
In the previous week, Veritex had 2 more articles in the media than TriCo Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Veritex and 3 mentions for TriCo Bancshares. Veritex's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat TriCo Bancshares' score of -0.10 indicating that Veritex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
59.1% of TriCo Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.3% of Veritex shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of TriCo Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Veritex shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TriCo Bancshares beats Veritex on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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