CADE vs. OZK, HOMB, UBSI, GBCI, FFIN, PB, WTFC, BPOP, COLB, and SSB
Should you be buying Cadence Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadence Bank include Bank OZK (OZK), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), Popular (BPOP), Columbia Banking System (COLB), and SouthState (SSB). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Cadence Bank (NYSE:CADE) and Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Cadence Bank presently has a consensus target price of $28.71, indicating a potential upside of 6.60%. Bank OZK has a consensus target price of $47.38, indicating a potential upside of 11.84%. Given Bank OZK's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bank OZK is more favorable than Cadence Bank.
Bank OZK has higher revenue and earnings than Cadence Bank. Bank OZK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadence Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cadence Bank has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bank OZK has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cadence Bank had 2 more articles in the media than Bank OZK. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Cadence Bank and 13 mentions for Bank OZK. Bank OZK's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Cadence Bank's score of 0.44 indicating that Bank OZK is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
80.2% of Cadence Bank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.8% of Bank OZK shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Cadence Bank shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Bank OZK shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cadence Bank received 128 more outperform votes than Bank OZK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.96% of users gave Cadence Bank an outperform vote while only 47.92% of users gave Bank OZK an outperform vote.
Bank OZK has a net margin of 30.69% compared to Cadence Bank's net margin of 23.33%. Bank OZK's return on equity of 15.13% beat Cadence Bank's return on equity.
Cadence Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Bank OZK pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Cadence Bank pays out 34.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bank OZK pays out 25.9% 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.
Summary
Bank OZK beats Cadence Bank on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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