CPF vs. TBBK, FFBC, INDB, SBCF, TOWN, FRME, HTLF, NBTB, TRMK, and OFG
Should you be buying Central Pacific Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Pacific Financial include Bancorp (TBBK), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Independent Bank (INDB), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), TowneBank (TOWN), First Merchants (FRME), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Trustmark (TRMK), and OFG Bancorp (OFG). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Central Pacific Financial (NYSE:CPF) and Bancorp (NASDAQ:TBBK) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.
Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Central Pacific Financial. Central Pacific Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Central Pacific Financial has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bancorp has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.4% of Central Pacific Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Central Pacific Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bancorp had 30 more articles in the media than Central Pacific Financial. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Bancorp and 5 mentions for Central Pacific Financial. Central Pacific Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Bancorp's score of -0.08 indicating that Central Pacific Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bancorp has a net margin of 31.40% compared to Central Pacific Financial's net margin of 16.44%. Bancorp's return on equity of 26.32% beat Central Pacific Financial's return on equity.
Central Pacific Financial currently has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.12%. Bancorp has a consensus target price of $50.33, indicating a potential downside of 3.28%. Given Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bancorp is more favorable than Central Pacific Financial.
Bancorp received 90 more outperform votes than Central Pacific Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.43% of users gave Bancorp an outperform vote while only 58.80% of users gave Central Pacific Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Bancorp beats Central Pacific Financial on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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