Both in Banking & Credit

Beacon Financial vs First Merchants

Over the past year BBT returned +24.1% and FRME returned +14.8%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.65.

BBT +24.1% FRME +14.8%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricBBTFRME
Price$30.85$41.04
Market cap$2.59B$2.57B
Today−2.28%−0.77%
1 month+9.7%+3.2%
6 months+7.5%+1.2%
Year to date+17.0%+9.5%
1 year+26.7%+15.7%
Revenue growth (YoY)—+12.8%
Gross margin68.6%65.9%
Net margin20.2%22.5%
P/E (TTM)16.2×13.1×
Price / sales2.2×2.3×
Net cash$2.18B$2.46B
Dividend yield4.18%3.61%
Volatility (60d)27.1%16.5%
Short % of float6.0%3.7%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).