CTBI vs. ABTX, LBAI, BMTC, GSBC, QCRH, FBP, BANF, TCBI, FIBK, and CATY
Should you be buying Community Trust Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Community Trust Bancorp include Allegiance Bancshares (ABTX), Lakeland Bancorp (LBAI), Bryn Mawr Bank (BMTC), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), QCR (QCRH), First BanCorp. (FBP), BancFirst (BANF), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), and Cathay General Bancorp (CATY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Allegiance Bancshares (NASDAQ:ABTX) and Community Trust Bancorp (NASDAQ:CTBI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, profitability, dividends, earnings and media sentiment.
Allegiance Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Community Trust Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Allegiance Bancshares pays out 15.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Community Trust Bancorp pays out 42.7% 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. Community Trust Bancorp has increased its dividend for 43 consecutive years. Community Trust Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
59.6% of Allegiance Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.2% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Allegiance Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Community Trust Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Allegiance Bancshares has a net margin of 28.90% compared to Allegiance Bancshares' net margin of 22.64%. Allegiance Bancshares' return on equity of 11.36% beat Community Trust Bancorp's return on equity.
Community Trust Bancorp has a consensus target price of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.99%. Given Allegiance Bancshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Community Trust Bancorp is more favorable than Allegiance Bancshares.
Allegiance Bancshares has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Community Trust Bancorp has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Community Trust Bancorp received 18 more outperform votes than Allegiance Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.34% of users gave Community Trust Bancorp an outperform vote while only 44.30% of users gave Allegiance Bancshares an outperform vote.
Allegiance Bancshares has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Community Trust Bancorp. Community Trust Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allegiance Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Community Trust Bancorp had 2 more articles in the media than Allegiance Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Community Trust Bancorp and 0 mentions for Allegiance Bancshares. Allegiance Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Community Trust Bancorp's score of 0.15 indicating that Community Trust Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Community Trust Bancorp beats Allegiance Bancshares on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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