UBSI vs. GBCI, OZK, FFIN, WTFC, FHB, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WAL, and CBSH
Should you be buying United Bankshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Bankshares include Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Bank OZK (OZK), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), First Hawaiian (FHB), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Glacier Bancorp (NASDAQ:GBCI) and United Bankshares (NASDAQ:UBSI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Glacier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. United Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Glacier Bancorp pays out 75.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. United Bankshares pays out 56.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United Bankshares has raised its dividend for 25 consecutive years. United Bankshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
United Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Glacier Bancorp. United Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glacier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, United Bankshares had 3 more articles in the media than Glacier Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for United Bankshares and 15 mentions for Glacier Bancorp. Glacier Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat United Bankshares' score of 0.70 indicating that United Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
United Bankshares received 9 more outperform votes than Glacier Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 49.81% of users gave Glacier Bancorp an outperform vote while only 47.28% of users gave United Bankshares an outperform vote.
United Bankshares has a net margin of 22.51% compared to United Bankshares' net margin of 15.15%. Glacier Bancorp's return on equity of 7.72% beat United Bankshares' return on equity.
Glacier Bancorp has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Bankshares has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Glacier Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $44.25, suggesting a potential downside of 4.61%. United Bankshares has a consensus target price of $39.20, suggesting a potential downside of 0.31%. Given Glacier Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe United Bankshares is more favorable than Glacier Bancorp.
80.2% of Glacier Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of United Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Glacier Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of United Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
United Bankshares beats Glacier Bancorp on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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