BOH vs. SBCF, TOWN, FBP, BANR, EFSC, HTLF, RNST, LKFN, COLB, and TCBI
Should you be buying Bank of Hawaii stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bank of Hawaii include Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), TowneBank (TOWN), First BanCorp. (FBP), Banner (BANR), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Renasant (RNST), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Columbia Banking System (COLB), and Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Bank of Hawaii vs.
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (NASDAQ:SBCF) and Bank of Hawaii (NYSE:BOH) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida currently has a consensus target price of $32.75, suggesting a potential upside of 35.39%. Bank of Hawaii has a consensus target price of $68.33, suggesting a potential upside of 35.05%. Given Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida is more favorable than Bank of Hawaii.
86.9% of Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.3% of Bank of Hawaii shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Bank of Hawaii shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank of Hawaii has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Bank of Hawaii pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida pays out 40.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank of Hawaii pays out 51.1% 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. Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Bank of Hawaii has a net margin of 29.91% compared to Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's net margin of 23.85%. Bank of Hawaii's return on equity of 19.31% beat Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's return on equity.
In the previous week, Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida had 4 more articles in the media than Bank of Hawaii. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida and 2 mentions for Bank of Hawaii. Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Bank of Hawaii's score of -0.67 indicating that Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bank of Hawaii has higher revenue and earnings than Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida. Bank of Hawaii is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida received 45 more outperform votes than Bank of Hawaii when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.78% of users gave Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida an outperform vote while only 51.36% of users gave Bank of Hawaii an outperform vote.
Summary
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida beats Bank of Hawaii on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BOH and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Bank of Hawaii Competitors List
