SBSI vs. EGBN, VBTX, TCBK, SRCE, BUSE, FULT, UCBI, FBP, BANF, and TCBI
Should you be buying Southside Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southside Bancshares include Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Veritex (VBTX), TriCo Bancshares (TCBK), 1st Source (SRCE), First Busey (BUSE), Fulton Financial (FULT), United Community Banks (UCBI), First BanCorp. (FBP), BancFirst (BANF), and Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI).
Southside Bancshares (NASDAQ:SBSI) and Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.
55.7% of Southside Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of Southside Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Southside Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Southside Bancshares pays out 53.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eagle Bancorp pays out 71.7% 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.
Eagle Bancorp received 164 more outperform votes than Southside Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.54% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote while only 42.82% of users gave Southside Bancshares an outperform vote.
Southside Bancshares has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Southside Bancshares has a net margin of 19.79% compared to Eagle Bancorp's net margin of 11.14%. Southside Bancshares' return on equity of 10.80% beat Eagle Bancorp's return on equity.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp had 6 more articles in the media than Southside Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Eagle Bancorp and 4 mentions for Southside Bancshares. Eagle Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Southside Bancshares' score of 0.28 indicating that Eagle Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Southside Bancshares. Eagle Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Southside Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Southside Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $32.67, indicating a potential upside of 21.85%. Eagle Bancorp has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.57%. Given Eagle Bancorp's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Eagle Bancorp is more favorable than Southside Bancshares.
Summary
Eagle Bancorp beats Southside Bancshares on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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