FCF vs. TRMK, CHCO, WSBC, NBHC, NBTB, WABC, HOPE, FRME, SASR, and TBBK
Should you be buying First Commonwealth Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Commonwealth Financial include Trustmark (TRMK), City (CHCO), WesBanco (WSBC), National Bank (NBHC), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), Hope Bancorp (HOPE), First Merchants (FRME), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), and Bancorp (TBBK). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
First Commonwealth Financial vs.
Trustmark (NASDAQ:TRMK) and First Commonwealth Financial (NYSE:FCF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Trustmark presently has a consensus target price of $33.17, indicating a potential upside of 52.21%. First Commonwealth Financial has a consensus target price of $15.60, indicating a potential upside of 19.63%. Given Trustmark's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Trustmark is more favorable than First Commonwealth Financial.
Trustmark has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Commonwealth Financial has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
65.8% of Trustmark shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of First Commonwealth Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Trustmark shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of First Commonwealth Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Trustmark pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. First Commonwealth Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Trustmark pays out 60.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Commonwealth Financial pays out 36.5% 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. First Commonwealth Financial has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years.
First Commonwealth Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Trustmark. First Commonwealth Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trustmark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trustmark received 3 more outperform votes than First Commonwealth Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.36% of users gave First Commonwealth Financial an outperform vote while only 53.41% of users gave Trustmark an outperform vote.
First Commonwealth Financial has a net margin of 27.75% compared to Trustmark's net margin of 10.91%. First Commonwealth Financial's return on equity of 13.53% beat Trustmark's return on equity.
In the previous week, Trustmark had 6 more articles in the media than First Commonwealth Financial. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Trustmark and 3 mentions for First Commonwealth Financial. Trustmark's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat First Commonwealth Financial's score of -0.34 indicating that Trustmark is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
First Commonwealth Financial beats Trustmark on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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.
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