HTH vs. SBCF, TOWN, TFIN, PPBI, FBK, INDB, LOB, MBIN, IBTX, and RNST
Should you be buying Hilltop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hilltop include Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), TowneBank (TOWN), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), FB Financial (FBK), Independent Bank (INDB), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), and Renasant (RNST). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Hilltop (NYSE:HTH) and Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (NASDAQ:SBCF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Hilltop has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hilltop had 4 more articles in the media than Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Hilltop and 1 mentions for Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida. Hilltop's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's score of -0.25 indicating that Hilltop is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hilltop has higher revenue and earnings than Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida. Hilltop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida has a net margin of 13.54% compared to Hilltop's net margin of 7.00%. Hilltop's return on equity of 5.20% beat Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's return on equity.
Hilltop pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Hilltop pays out 40.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida pays out 58.1% 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.
57.1% of Hilltop shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.9% of Hilltop shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hilltop presently has a consensus target price of $32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.71%. Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida has a consensus target price of $25.63, suggesting a potential upside of 16.16%. Given Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida is more favorable than Hilltop.
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida received 52 more outperform votes than Hilltop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.33% of users gave Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida an outperform vote while only 53.76% of users gave Hilltop an outperform vote.
Summary
Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida beats Hilltop on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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