COLB vs. GBCI, FFIN, UBSI, IBOC, HOMB, ABCB, UCBI, FBP, AUB, and TCBI
Should you be buying Columbia Banking System stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Columbia Banking System include Glacier Bancorp (GBCI), First Financial Bankshares (FFIN), United Bankshares (UBSI), International Bancshares (IBOC), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), Ameris Bancorp (ABCB), United Community Banks (UCBI), First BanCorp. (FBP), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), and Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Glacier Bancorp (NASDAQ:GBCI) and Columbia Banking System (NASDAQ:COLB) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
Glacier Bancorp has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Columbia Banking System has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Glacier Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Columbia Banking System pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Glacier Bancorp pays out 75.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Columbia Banking System pays out 61.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Columbia Banking System has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Columbia Banking System is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
80.2% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of Columbia Banking System shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Glacier Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Columbia Banking System shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Columbia Banking System has a net margin of 16.52% compared to Columbia Banking System's net margin of 16.40%. Glacier Bancorp's return on equity of 11.58% beat Columbia Banking System's return on equity.
Glacier Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $40.40, indicating a potential upside of 2.88%. Columbia Banking System has a consensus target price of $22.19, indicating a potential upside of 8.68%. Given Glacier Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Columbia Banking System is more favorable than Glacier Bancorp.
Columbia Banking System has higher revenue and earnings than Glacier Bancorp. Columbia Banking System is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Glacier Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Columbia Banking System received 3 more outperform votes than Glacier Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.19% of users gave Glacier Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.35% of users gave Columbia Banking System an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Columbia Banking System had 6 more articles in the media than Glacier Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Columbia Banking System and 3 mentions for Glacier Bancorp. Columbia Banking System's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Glacier Bancorp's score of 0.98 indicating that Glacier Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Columbia Banking System beats Glacier Bancorp on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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