PRK vs. BANC, FFBC, SFNC, FRME, CBU, FULT, WAFD, TRMK, WSFS, and NBTB
Should you be buying Park National stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Park National include Banc of California (BANC), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Simmons First National (SFNC), First Merchants (FRME), Community Bank System (CBU), Fulton Financial (FULT), WaFd (WAFD), Trustmark (TRMK), WSFS Financial (WSFS), and NBT Bancorp (NBTB). These companies are all part of the "national commercial banks" industry.
Banc of California (NYSE:BANC) and Park National (NYSE:PRK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
Banc of California presently has a consensus target price of $16.92, suggesting a potential upside of 23.39%. Park National has a consensus target price of $130.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.61%. Given Park National's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Banc of California is more favorable than Park National.
Banc of California received 307 more outperform votes than Park National when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.27% of users gave Banc of California an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Park National an outperform vote.
Banc of California has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Park National has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Park National has a net margin of 22.03% compared to Park National's net margin of -29.10%. Banc of California's return on equity of 12.28% beat Park National's return on equity.
Park National has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Banc of California. Banc of California is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park National, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Park National had 74 more articles in the media than Banc of California. MarketBeat recorded 95 mentions for Park National and 21 mentions for Banc of California. Banc of California's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Park National's score of 0.10 indicating that Park National is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Banc of California pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Park National pays an annual dividend of $4.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Banc of California pays out -12.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Park National pays out 53.7% 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. Banc of California has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Park National has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years. Park National is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
86.9% of Banc of California shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Park National shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Banc of California shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Park National shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Park National beats Banc of California on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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