OFG vs. BPOP, ZION, ONB, SNV, PB, BOKF, HOMB, UBSI, FFIN, and FNB
Should you be buying OFG Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OFG Bancorp include Popular (BPOP), Zions Bancorporation, National Association (ZION), Old National Bancorp (ONB), Synovus Financial (SNV), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), BOK Financial (BOKF), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), and F.N.B. (FNB). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
OFG Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
Popular (NASDAQ:BPOP) and OFG Bancorp (NYSE:OFG) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Popular pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. OFG Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Popular pays out 28.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OFG Bancorp pays out 28.8% 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. Popular has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and OFG Bancorp has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. OFG Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Popular has higher revenue and earnings than OFG Bancorp. OFG Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Popular, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Popular had 12 more articles in the media than OFG Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Popular and 5 mentions for OFG Bancorp. Popular's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat OFG Bancorp's score of 0.51 indicating that Popular is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Popular received 171 more outperform votes than OFG Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.78% of users gave OFG Bancorp an outperform vote while only 65.50% of users gave Popular an outperform vote.
OFG Bancorp has a net margin of 22.71% compared to Popular's net margin of 14.15%. OFG Bancorp's return on equity of 15.80% beat Popular's return on equity.
Popular has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OFG Bancorp has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Popular presently has a consensus price target of $114.43, suggesting a potential upside of 8.46%. OFG Bancorp has a consensus price target of $45.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.45%. Given OFG Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe OFG Bancorp is more favorable than Popular.
87.3% of Popular shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of OFG Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Popular shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of OFG Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
OFG Bancorp beats Popular on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (NYSE:OFG) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
