OFG vs. STBA, BUSE, SRCE, EGBN, SBSI, TCBK, LBAI, FBNC, GABC, and SYBT
Should you be buying OFG Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OFG Bancorp include S&T Bancorp (STBA), First Busey (BUSE), 1st Source (SRCE), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), First Bancorp (FBNC), German American Bancorp (GABC), and Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
OFG Bancorp vs.
OFG Bancorp (NYSE:OFG) and S&T Bancorp (NASDAQ:STBA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
OFG Bancorp currently has a consensus price target of $33.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.00%. S&T Bancorp has a consensus price target of $34.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.84%. Given OFG Bancorp's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe OFG Bancorp is more favorable than S&T Bancorp.
In the previous week, S&T Bancorp had 1 more articles in the media than OFG Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for S&T Bancorp and 1 mentions for OFG Bancorp. S&T Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat OFG Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that S&T Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
OFG Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. S&T Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. OFG Bancorp pays out 23.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. S&T Bancorp pays out 36.9% 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.
91.0% of OFG Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.9% of S&T Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of OFG Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of S&T Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
S&T Bancorp has a net margin of 33.96% compared to OFG Bancorp's net margin of 25.92%. OFG Bancorp's return on equity of 16.25% beat S&T Bancorp's return on equity.
OFG Bancorp received 14 more outperform votes than S&T Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.66% of users gave OFG Bancorp an outperform vote while only 53.16% of users gave S&T Bancorp an outperform vote.
OFG Bancorp has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&T Bancorp has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
OFG Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than S&T Bancorp. OFG Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&T Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
OFG Bancorp beats S&T Bancorp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding OFG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
OFG Bancorp Competitors List
