CHCO vs. NWBI, FCF, NBHC, TBBK, WABC, PB, SSB, BOKF, SNV, and ONB
Should you be buying City stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City include Northwest Bancshares (NWBI), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), National Bank (NBHC), Bancorp (TBBK), Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), SouthState (SSB), BOK Financial (BOKF), Synovus Financial (SNV), and Old National Bancorp (ONB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) and City (NASDAQ:CHCO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and community ranking.
City has a net margin of 33.78% compared to City's net margin of 17.84%. Northwest Bancshares' return on equity of 18.31% beat City's return on equity.
In the previous week, City had 4 more articles in the media than Northwest Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for City and 1 mentions for Northwest Bancshares. City's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Northwest Bancshares' score of 1.27 indicating that Northwest Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, City has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northwest Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.46%. City has a consensus price target of $106.75, suggesting a potential upside of 4.43%. Given Northwest Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe City is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
Northwest Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than City. Northwest Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.4% of City shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of City shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. City pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Northwest Bancshares pays out 77.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. City pays out 36.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. City has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Northwest Bancshares received 26 more outperform votes than City when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.68% of users gave Northwest Bancshares an outperform vote while only 49.90% of users gave City an outperform vote.
Summary
City beats Northwest Bancshares on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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