HBT vs. EGBN, GSBC, CCB, MBWM, MCBS, CFB, CPF, FCBC, OSBC, and UVSP
Should you be buying HBT Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HBT Financial include Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), Coastal Financial (CCB), Mercantile Bank (MBWM), MetroCity Bankshares (MCBS), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Old Second Bancorp (OSBC), and Univest Financial (UVSP). These companies are all part of the "state commercial banks" industry.
Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) and HBT Financial (NASDAQ:HBT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HBT Financial has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HBT Financial has a net margin of 26.29% compared to HBT Financial's net margin of 11.14%. Eagle Bancorp's return on equity of 16.14% beat HBT Financial's return on equity.
Eagle Bancorp received 312 more outperform votes than HBT Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.75% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.64% of users gave HBT Financial an outperform vote.
78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of HBT Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 59.8% of HBT Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Bancorp presently has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.00%. HBT Financial has a consensus target price of $22.17, indicating a potential upside of 12.98%. Given Eagle Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HBT Financial is more favorable than Eagle Bancorp.
Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. HBT Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Eagle Bancorp pays out 71.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HBT Financial pays out 33.6% 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. Eagle Bancorp has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and HBT Financial has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Eagle Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than HBT Financial. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HBT Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HBT Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Eagle Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for HBT Financial and 1 mentions for Eagle Bancorp. Eagle Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat HBT Financial's score of 0.64 indicating that HBT Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
HBT Financial beats Eagle Bancorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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