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Home BancShares (HOMB) Competitors

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$29.88 +0.36 (+1.22%)
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HOMB vs. RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, SSB, WBS, PNFP, WAL, CBSH, and WTFC

Should you be buying Home BancShares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Home BancShares include Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), SouthState (SSB), Webster Financial (WBS), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), and Wintrust Financial (WTFC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.

Home BancShares vs. Its Competitors

Home BancShares (NYSE:HOMB) and Regions Financial (NYSE:RF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.

Home BancShares presently has a consensus price target of $32.40, indicating a potential upside of 8.43%. Regions Financial has a consensus price target of $25.90, indicating a potential upside of 4.21%. Given Home BancShares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Home BancShares is more favorable than Regions Financial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Home BancShares
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60
Regions Financial
1 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.52

Home BancShares has a net margin of 28.44% compared to Regions Financial's net margin of 21.43%. Regions Financial's return on equity of 13.04% beat Home BancShares' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Home BancShares28.44% 10.49% 1.82%
Regions Financial 21.43%13.04%1.36%

67.3% of Home BancShares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.4% of Regions Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Home BancShares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Regions Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Regions Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Home BancShares. Regions Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home BancShares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Home BancShares$1.47B4.02$402.24M$2.1014.23
Regions Financial$9.37B2.38$1.89B$2.0811.95

In the previous week, Regions Financial had 28 more articles in the media than Home BancShares. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Regions Financial and 2 mentions for Home BancShares. Regions Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Home BancShares' score of 0.28 indicating that Regions Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Home BancShares
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Regions Financial
19 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Home BancShares has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Regions Financial has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Home BancShares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Regions Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Home BancShares pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Regions Financial pays out 48.1% 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. Home BancShares has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Regions Financial has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.

Summary

Home BancShares beats Regions Financial on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HOMB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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HOMB vs. The Competition

MetricHome BancSharesBANKS IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.90B$2.01B$12.08B$20.63B
Dividend Yield2.72%2.67%5.58%3.77%
P/E Ratio14.2212.5020.0428.02
Price / Sales4.022.3325.5738.37
Price / Cash13.1012.2221.3421.91
Price / Book1.501.222.284.58
Net Income$402.24M$154.64M$1.00B$984.95M
7 Day Performance4.25%4.16%2.14%2.68%
1 Month Performance5.38%7.08%4.20%5.23%
1 Year Performance26.08%29.05%540.96%14.27%

Home BancShares Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HOMB
Home BancShares
3.1811 of 5 stars
$29.88
+1.2%
$32.40
+8.4%
+22.7%$5.90B$1.47B14.222,552
RF
Regions Financial
4.8669 of 5 stars
$22.67
+2.1%
$25.80
+13.8%
+22.3%$19.96B$9.37B10.9019,644Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
KEY
KeyCorp
4.914 of 5 stars
$16.50
+2.1%
$18.92
+14.7%
+26.3%$17.71B$4.64B-97.0416,753Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
EWBC
East West Bancorp
3.6116 of 5 stars
$97.51
+2.6%
$107.85
+10.6%
+45.4%$13.10B$4.53B11.643,100News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
FHN
First Horizon
4.5184 of 5 stars
$20.24
+1.5%
$22.53
+11.3%
+37.8%$10.11B$5.03B14.067,252News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
SSB
SouthState
4.348 of 5 stars
$88.28
+2.7%
$116.27
+31.7%
+25.4%$8.96B$1.88B12.685,030Positive News
WBS
Webster Financial
4.8802 of 5 stars
$53.15
+2.2%
$63.75
+19.9%
+28.0%$8.75B$4.18B11.974,407Analyst Forecast
PNFP
Pinnacle Financial Partners
4.6479 of 5 stars
$107.54
+2.5%
$121.27
+12.8%
+45.8%$8.14B$3.07B17.403,565News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
WAL
Western Alliance Bancorporation
4.9897 of 5 stars
$74.82
+1.9%
$97.77
+30.7%
+31.1%$8.11B$5.08B10.263,524News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CBSH
Commerce Bancshares
4.5214 of 5 stars
$61.36
+1.0%
$63.80
+4.0%
+14.5%$8.10B$2.09B14.864,687
WTFC
Wintrust Financial
4.4537 of 5 stars
$122.43
+1.7%
$135.77
+10.9%
+30.2%$8.06B$3.97B12.115,903Analyst Revision

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