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.
City (NASDAQ:CHCO) and Northwest Bancshares (NASDAQ:NWBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
72.4% of City shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.3% of Northwest Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of City shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Northwest Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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. Northwest Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat City's score of 1.27 indicating that Northwest Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
City has a net margin of 33.78% compared to Northwest Bancshares' net margin of 17.84%. City's return on equity of 18.31% beat Northwest Bancshares' return on equity.
City presently has a consensus price target of $106.75, indicating a potential upside of 4.43%. Northwest Bancshares has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.46%. Given City's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe City is more favorable than Northwest Bancshares.
City pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Northwest Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. City pays out 36.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northwest Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
City beats Northwest Bancshares on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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