CADE vs. AUB, MAIN, STEP, BRP, FHI, GSHD, NWLI, RONI, SEIC, and RGA
Should you be buying Cadence Bank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadence Bank include Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), Main Street Capital (MAIN), StepStone Group (STEP), BRP Group (BRP), Federated Hermes (FHI), Goosehead Insurance (GSHD), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI), SEI Investments (SEIC), and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA).
Atlantic Union Bankshares (NASDAQ:AUB) and Cadence Bank (NYSE:CADE) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
78.6% of Atlantic Union Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of Cadence Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Atlantic Union Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Cadence Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cadence Bank has higher revenue and earnings than Atlantic Union Bankshares. Cadence Bank is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atlantic Union Bankshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atlantic Union Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Cadence Bank pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Atlantic Union Bankshares pays out 50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cadence Bank pays out 34.4% 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. Atlantic Union Bankshares has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Cadence Bank has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Atlantic Union Bankshares is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Atlantic Union Bankshares presently has a consensus price target of $35.67, suggesting a potential upside of 8.67%. Cadence Bank has a consensus price target of $30.65, suggesting a potential upside of 13.94%. Given Atlantic Union Bankshares' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cadence Bank is more favorable than Atlantic Union Bankshares.
Cadence Bank received 286 more outperform votes than Atlantic Union Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.00% of users gave Atlantic Union Bankshares an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Cadence Bank an outperform vote.
Cadence Bank has a net margin of 23.33% compared to Cadence Bank's net margin of 19.31%. Atlantic Union Bankshares' return on equity of 9.55% beat Cadence Bank's return on equity.
Atlantic Union Bankshares has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadence Bank has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cadence Bank had 8 more articles in the media than Atlantic Union Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Cadence Bank and 4 mentions for Atlantic Union Bankshares. Atlantic Union Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Cadence Bank's score of -0.13 indicating that Cadence Bank is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cadence Bank beats Atlantic Union Bankshares on 15 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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