GBCI vs. CFG, BAP, AFRM, BCH, SOFI, BSAC, ALLY, CIB, WF, and GGAL
Should you be buying Glacier Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Glacier Bancorp include Citizens Financial Group (CFG), Credicorp (BAP), Affirm (AFRM), Banco de Chile (BCH), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Banco Santander-Chile (BSAC), Ally Financial (ALLY), Bancolombia (CIB), Woori Financial Group (WF), and Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Glacier Bancorp vs.
Glacier Bancorp (NYSE:GBCI) and Citizens Financial Group (NYSE:CFG) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Citizens Financial Group has higher revenue and earnings than Glacier Bancorp. Citizens Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glacier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Citizens Financial Group received 547 more outperform votes than Glacier Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.88% of users gave Citizens Financial Group an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Glacier Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Citizens Financial Group had 23 more articles in the media than Glacier Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Citizens Financial Group and 2 mentions for Glacier Bancorp. Citizens Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Glacier Bancorp's score of 0.50 indicating that Citizens Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Citizens Financial Group has a net margin of 12.21% compared to Glacier Bancorp's net margin of 0.00%. Citizens Financial Group's return on equity of 6.75% beat Glacier Bancorp's return on equity.
80.2% of Glacier Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Citizens Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Glacier Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Citizens Financial Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Glacier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Citizens Financial Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Glacier Bancorp pays out 71.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Citizens Financial Group pays out 53.3% 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. Citizens Financial Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Glacier Bancorp has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens Financial Group has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens Financial Group has a consensus price target of $47.89, suggesting a potential upside of 19.71%. Given Citizens Financial Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Citizens Financial Group is more favorable than Glacier Bancorp.
Summary
Citizens Financial Group beats Glacier Bancorp on 18 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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