WTFC vs. OZK, UBSI, FFIN, GBCI, HBAN, RF, KEY, EWBC, FHN, and WBS
Should you be buying Wintrust Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wintrust Financial include Bank OZK (OZK), United Bankshares (UBSI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Regions Financial (RF), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) and Wintrust Financial (NASDAQ:WTFC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and valuation.
Bank OZK has a net margin of 28.54% compared to Bank OZK's net margin of 17.86%. Wintrust Financial's return on equity of 14.84% beat Bank OZK's return on equity.
Bank OZK pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Wintrust Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Bank OZK pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wintrust Financial pays out 18.6% 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. Bank OZK has increased its dividend for 28 consecutive years and Wintrust Financial has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years. Bank OZK is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Bank OZK has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Wintrust Financial. Bank OZK is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wintrust Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wintrust Financial received 287 more outperform votes than Bank OZK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.50% of users gave Wintrust Financial an outperform vote while only 46.88% of users gave Bank OZK an outperform vote.
Bank OZK has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wintrust Financial has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bank OZK had 24 more articles in the media than Wintrust Financial. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Bank OZK and 3 mentions for Wintrust Financial. Bank OZK's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Wintrust Financial's score of 0.32 indicating that Wintrust Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.2% of Bank OZK shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Bank OZK shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Wintrust Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Bank OZK presently has a consensus price target of $46.57, indicating a potential upside of 11.20%. Wintrust Financial has a consensus price target of $112.33, indicating a potential upside of 13.92%. Given Bank OZK's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Wintrust Financial is more favorable than Bank OZK.
Summary
Wintrust Financial beats Bank OZK on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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