TRMK vs. TBBK, NBTB, WSBC, FRME, CHCO, FFBC, SFNC, FCF, NBHC, and WABC
Should you be buying Trustmark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trustmark include Bancorp (TBBK), NBT Bancorp (NBTB), WesBanco (WSBC), First Merchants (FRME), City (CHCO), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Simmons First National (SFNC), First Commonwealth Financial (FCF), National Bank (NBHC), and Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC). These companies are all part of the "regional banks" industry.
Bancorp (NASDAQ:TBBK) and Trustmark (NASDAQ:TRMK) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
96.2% of Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.6% of Trustmark shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Trustmark shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $49.00, indicating a potential upside of 45.44%. Trustmark has a consensus target price of $32.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.43%. Given Trustmark's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Bancorp is more favorable than Trustmark.
Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Trustmark. Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trustmark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bancorp has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trustmark has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bancorp received 60 more outperform votes than Trustmark when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.36% of users gave Bancorp an outperform vote while only 50.90% of users gave Trustmark an outperform vote.
Bancorp has a net margin of 31.40% compared to Bancorp's net margin of 13.82%. Trustmark's return on equity of 26.32% beat Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than Trustmark. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Bancorp and 1 mentions for Trustmark. Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Trustmark's score of 0.12 indicating that Trustmark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bancorp beats Trustmark on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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