PRK vs. CIB, WF, GGAL, COOP, UWMC, QFIN, OMF, CADE, BMA, and OZK
Should you be buying Park National stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park National include Bancolombia (CIB), Woori Financial Group (WF), Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), UWM (UWMC), Qifu Technology (QFIN), OneMain (OMF), Cadence Bank (CADE), Banco Macro (BMA), and Bank OZK (OZK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Park National vs. Its Competitors
Park National (NYSE:PRK) and Bancolombia (NYSE:CIB) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
Park National has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bancolombia has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Park National currently has a consensus target price of $177.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.91%. Bancolombia has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.32%. Given Park National's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Park National is more favorable than Bancolombia.
Park National pays an annual dividend of $4.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Bancolombia pays an annual dividend of $6.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.4%. Park National pays out 43.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bancolombia pays out 104.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Park National has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years.
62.7% of Park National shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Park National shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Park National had 29 more articles in the media than Bancolombia. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Park National and 4 mentions for Bancolombia. Bancolombia's average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat Park National's score of 0.03 indicating that Bancolombia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bancolombia has higher revenue and earnings than Park National. Bancolombia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park National, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Park National has a net margin of 23.46% compared to Bancolombia's net margin of 14.14%. Bancolombia's return on equity of 14.61% beat Park National's return on equity.
Bancolombia received 322 more outperform votes than Park National when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.23% of users gave Bancolombia an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Park National an outperform vote.
Summary
Park National beats Bancolombia on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:PRK) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
